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Bartlett dam consists of 10 arches, 9 buttresses, and is flanked by 2 gravity wing dams. Before being modified, the Bartlett Dam was 287 ft (87 m) tall and contained 182,000 cu yd (139,000 m) of concrete. After the mid-1990s modification, the dam is
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have a discharge capacity of 2,400 cu ft/s (68 m/s). When the reservoir is at the maximum water elevation of 1,821 ft (555 m), the service spillway has a 287,500 cu ft/s (8,140 m/s) capacity while the auxiliary spillway can discharge up to
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308.5 ft (94.0 m) tall, made of 223,773 cu yd (171,087 m) of concrete, and has a length of 823 ft (251 m). The width of the dam arch's ranges from 7.5 ft (2.3 m) at its base and 4.5 ft (1.4 m) at its crest.
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constructed the dam between 1936 and 1939, in a total of 1,000 days. Upon completion, the dam was the tallest multiple arch buttress type in the world at the time. 80% of the funding for the dam was provided by the
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