Owyhee Dam A project of the Bureau of Reclamation, they hired General Construction Company from Seattle to build the dam. Former Oregonian and then United States President Herbert Hoover dedicated what was the highest dam of its type in the world on July 17, 1932. Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur delivered Hoover's message at the dam. Owyhee's construction served as a prototype for the larger Hoover Dam on the Colorado River, including the use of refrigeration to cool the concrete. The dam cost $6,000,000, with the total reclamation project costing $18,000,000. Owyhee was designed by Frank A. Banks, who also
Puclaro Dam 3,800 m³/s). The upstream concrete face varies in thickness from 0.45 m to 0.30 m. Puclaro dam is founded on very pervious alluvial foundations more than 100 m deep. Puclaro Dam Puclaro is an artificial lake created by a dam on the Elqui River, 40 km east of the city of La Serena, Coquimbo Region and 500 km north of Santiago. Regular strong winds make the lake a popular place for kitesurfing. Its purpose is to improve the irrigation of 21,000 ha of farmland in the Elqui valley. Puclaro Dam is an 83 m tall and 640 m long concrete