History of California 1900–present conduit and siphons. Average annual throughput is . Davis Dam is located on the Colorado River about downstream from Hoover Dam. Davis Dam stretches across the border between Arizona and Nevada and impounds the Colorado River to form Lake Mohave. The United States Bureau of Reclamation owns and operates the dam, which was completed in 1951. Davis Dam is a zoned earth fill dam with a concrete spillway, in length at the crest, and high. The earth fill dam begins on the Nevada side, but it does not extend to the Arizona side. Instead, there is an inlet formed by
Glen Canyon Dam Bridge Glen Canyon Dam Bridge The Glen Canyon Bridge or Glen Canyon Dam Bridge is a steel arch bridge in Coconino County, Arizona, carrying U.S. Route 89 across the Colorado River. The bridge was originally built by the United States Bureau of Reclamation to facilitate transportation of materials for the Glen Canyon Dam, which lies adjacent to the bridge just upstream. The two-lane bridge has an overall length of with a deck above the river, making it the one of the highest bridges in the United States. The bridge was the highest arch bridge in the world when completed in 1959.