Talk:List of largest dams

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Contents 1 Not accurate 2 Three Gorges 3 Volume issue again, also W.A.C. Bennett Dam 4 Disputed tag

[edit] Not accurate

Hi, I was just checking out this site, and realized that this ranks i not accurate. At least I don't think so. If you look on the page for the syncrude dam it claims to be extra big. Also, what is the ranking system? volume of material in dam, or resivior, or? sorry I don't have the time to do this, maybe some day i will.

thanks, Scott 24.108.204.240 (talk) 06:41, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Three Gorges

Infoplease is wrong: Three Gorges Dam reservoir contains 39,300,000,000 cubic metres, not the dam! 62.225.117.57 (talk)

Yeah it says something in that one footnote about including the reservoir volume where applicable; that's not a level playing field if only one entry includes its (eventual) reservoir volume; by its dimensions Three Gorges isn't all that much larger than WAC Bennett (see below). As for Syncrude, are mining dams to be included here? Most if not all dam articles are about hydrelectric/flood control dams; as it is someone wants to add natural/volcanic etc dams to List of dams and reservoirs in Canada (see its talkpage).Skookum1 (talk) 06:12, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Volume issue again, also W.A.C. Bennett Dam

I was surprised to not see this here, as it's one of the world's largest for sure. According to the World's Largest Dam website in the references, it's 43.7 million cubic metres, higher than Aswan's 43....but on the World Lakes Database its stats are:

Surface area [km2] 1,779

Volume [km3] 70.3

Maximum depth [m] 166

Mean depth [m] 43.3

Water level Regulated

Normal range of annual water

level fluctuation [m] 16.8*

Length of shoreline [km] 1,770

Residence time [yr] 2.2

Catchment area [km2] 72,000

• With 32 m the maximum, allowable (1972-1987)

And on Economypoint.org's listing it's 70; the rest of their stats are garbled for some code-conversion reason but the page includes the cryptic comment:

The W.A.C. Bennett dam with Hudson's Hope in Canada is one of the largest dams of the earth. It is after the size of the memory space on place 9.

By which I mean it's ranked ninth... (??). Not sure of how to add it, although I know the tables; I'm just uncertain of the units; the volume of Lake Williston, if added in, would make it one hell of a lot larger.....Skookum1 (talk) 06:12, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Yes, W.A.C. Bennett dam is on place 26; see here. Memory space is a wrong tranlation, it means: volume of the reservoir. W.A.C. Bennett with Williston lake is on place 9 or 10, see here. --ProfessorXY (talk) 17:36, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Disputed tag

I've added a disputed tag to the article. The volume quoted for the dams is sometimes the size of the lake and sometimes the size of the dam itself. Until this is fixed, the page is essentially meaningless, except as a list of large dams and/or lakes. Dricherby (talk) 17:28, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

You can get the solution here: de:Liste der voluminösesten Talsperren (list of size of volume of the dam)(my own work).--ProfessorXY (talk) 14:48, 11 May 2008 (UTC)