Big Bend Dam with an annual production of 969 million kilowatt hours, and meets peak-hour demand for power within the Missouri River Basin. Located near Fort Thompson, South Dakota, just south of a major bend in the Missouri River (from which the dam takes its name), Big Bend Dam creates Lake Sharpe, named after South Dakota Governor Merrill Q. Sharpe. The lake extends for up the course of the Missouri River passing through Pierre, the State Capitol, to Oahe Dam, another major power-generating and flood control dam. Lake Sharpe covers a total of and drains an area just under . South Dakota Highway
Perunchani Dam of the reservoir. The dam is located about from Nagercoil, the administrative headquarters-town of Kanyakumari District, and about from the town of Kulasekharam. The average annual rainfall in the catchment is , and the average annual yield at the dam site is . The dam was constructed between 1948–1953 by the then State of Travancore-Cochin. The height of the straight gravity masonry dam above the deepest foundation is , with Full Reservoir Level (FRL) at , which is also the Maximum Water Level (MWL). The dam is long. The gross storage capacity of the reservoir is at the FRL, which