Crystal Dam Crystal Dam Crystal Dam is a double curvature, concrete thin arch dam located six miles downstream from Morrow Point Dam on the Gunnison River in Colorado, United States. Crystal Dam is the newest of the three dams in Curecanti National Recreation Area; construction on the dam was finished in 1976. The dam impounds Crystal Reservoir. Crystal Dam and reservoir are part of the Bureau of Reclamation's Wayne N. Aspinall Unit of the Colorado River Storage Project, which retains the waters of the Gunnison River and its tributaries for agricultural and municipal use in the American Southwest. The dam's primary purpose
Lock and Dam No. 7 roller gates and 11 tainter gates, a segment of earth embankment long from the dam to French Island separated by a concrete spillway long, and another embankment long from French Island to Onalaska which has a concrete spillway long. The lock is wide by long. The lock and dam is one of the most visited because of its proximity to Interstate 90, and is clearly visible to travelers crossing the I-90 Mississippi River Bridge. Lock and Dam No. 7 Lock and Dam No. 7 is a lock and dam located on the Upper Mississippi River at river mile 702.5 near