Flaming Gorge Dam Flaming Gorge Dam Flaming Gorge Dam is a concrete thin-arch dam on the Green River, a major tributary of the Colorado River, in northern Utah in the United States. Flaming Gorge Dam forms the Flaming Gorge Reservoir, which extends into southern Wyoming, submerging four distinct gorges of the Green River. The dam is a major component of the Colorado River Storage Project, which stores and distributes upper Colorado River Basin water. The dam takes its name from a nearby section of the Green River canyon, named by John Wesley Powell in 1869. It was built by the U.S. Bureau of
Aguacapa Dam Aguacapa Dam The Aguacapa Dam (Spanish: Planta Hidroeléctrica Aguacapa ) is a reinforced concrete gravity dam and power plant spanning the Aguacapa River in Escuintla, Guatemala. The dam's reservoir has a total capacity of 300,000 m. The water is transported to the powerhouse through a 12.04 km long tunnel and a 3.65 km long pressure tube. The plant has Pelton turbines, with a total installed capacity of 90 MW. The plant has a net level declination of 490.6 m, and a designed flow of 7.33 m/s per unit. The plant's total output between 1981 and 2006 was 6600.96 GWh, which