The following table lists the largest man-made dams by volume of fill/structure. By general definition, a dam is a barrier that impounds water or underground streams, hence tailings dams are relegated to a separate list. Data on volume of structure is not as easily available or reliable as data on dam height and reservoir volume.
Type: TE - Earth; ER - Rock-fill; PG - Concrete gravity; CFRD - Concrete face rock fill; AG - Arch-gravity.
Rank | Name | Country | Year completed | Structure volume [106 m3] | Structure height [m] | Reservoir volume [109 m3] | Installed capacity [MW] | Type |
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1 | Tarbela Dam[1] | Pakistan | 1976 | 153 | 143 | 13.7 | 4,888 | TE/ER |
2 | Fort Peck Dam[2] | United States | 1940 | 96 | 76.4 | 23 | 185 | TE |
3 | Atatürk Dam[3] | Turkey | 1990 | 84.5 | 166 | 48.7 | 2,400 | TE/ER |
4 | Houtribdijk | Netherlands | 1968 | 78[4] | 13 | 2[5] | 0 | TE/ER |
5 | Oahe Dam[2] | United States | 1963 | 70.3 | 75 | 29 | 786 | TE/ER |
6 | Mangla Dam | Pakistan | 1967 | 65.4 | 147 | 7.25 | 1,000 | TE or TE/ER |
7 | Gardiner Dam[6] | Canada | 1967 | 65.4 | 64 | 9.4 | 186 | TE |
8 | Oroville Dam | United States | 1968 | 59.6 | 230 | 4.36 | 819 | TE/ER |
9 | San Luis Dam (BF Sisk Dam) | United States | 1967 | 59.6 | 93 | 2.52 | 424 | TE |
10 | Nurek Dam | Tajikistan | 1980 | 54 | 300 | 10.5 | 3,200 | TE |
11 | Samara Dam | Russia | 1955 | 54[4] | 52 | 57.3 | 2,315 | TE or ER |
12 | Garrison Dam[2] | United States | 1954 | 50.8 | 64 | 29 | 583.3 | TE |
13 | Cochiti Dam | United States | 1975 | 50.2 | 76.5 | 0.73 | NA | TE |
14 | Aswan Dam[7] | Egypt | 1970 | 44.3 | 111 | 169 | 2,100 | TE/ER |
15 | W. A. C. Bennett Dam | Canada | 1968 | 43.7 | 186 | 7.4 | 2,876 | TE |
16 | San Roque Dam | Philippines | 2003 | 40[8] | 200 | 0.835 | 345 | TE or ER |
17 | Fort Randall Dam[2] | United States | 1953 | 38.2 | 50.3 | 6.7 | 320 | TE/ER |
18 | Afsluitdijk | Netherlands | 1932 | 36.5[4] | 13 | 5.5 | 0 | TE/ER |
19 | Kölnbrein Dam | Austria | 1979 | 35.2 | 200 | 200 | 1,028.5 | TE |
21 | Guri Dam | Venezuela | 1978 | 29.8 | 162 | 135 | 10,235 | PG/ER |
22 | Three Gorges Dam | China | 2008 | 27.4[9] | 181 | 39.3 | 22,500 | PG |
23 | Indira Sagar Dam | India | 2005 | 12.2 | 92 | 9.75 | 1,000 | PG |
List of largest tailings dams edit
Type: TE - Earth; ER - Rock-fill; PG - Concrete gravity; CFRD - Concrete face rock fill.
Rank | Name | Country | Year completed | Structure volume [106 m3] | Structure height [m] | Reservoir volume [109 m3] | Installed capacity [MW] | Type |
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1 | Syncrude Tailings Dam Mildred MLSB[10] | Canada | 1995 | 540[4]/720 | 88 | 0.35 | NA | TE |
2 | Syncrude Tailings Dam#South West Sand Storage (SWSS)[11] | Canada | 2010 | 119[4] | 40-50 | 0.25[4] | NA | TE |
3 | ASARCO Mission Mine Tailings Dam | United States | 1972 | 40.1 | 30[12] | 0[13] | NA | ER |
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