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
Portugués Dam is filled and the dam tested, it is expected to be operational in early 2015. The Portugués Dam is a high and long single-centered roller-compacted concrete thick arch. Containing of roller-compacted concrete, it is thick at its base and thick at its crest. The dam has an uncontrolled spillway center-left side, over the river bed; below the dams crest of above sea level. The center of the dam straddles an intake and outlet structure which will draw water from behind the dam and discharge it into the river valley. During excavation, a Pre-Columbian era ceremonial plaza ("batey" or ball court)