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.

RankNameCountryYear completedStructure volume [106 m3]Structure height [m]Reservoir volume [109 m3]Installed capacity [MW]Type
1Tarbela Dam[1] Pakistan197615314313.74,888TE/ER
2 Fort Peck Dam[2] United States19409676.423185TE
3Atatürk Dam[3] Turkey199084.516648.72,400TE/ER
4Houtribdijk Netherlands196878[4]132[5]0TE/ER
5Oahe Dam[2] United States196370.37529786TE/ER
6Mangla Dam Pakistan196765.41477.251,000TE or TE/ER
7Gardiner Dam[6] Canada196765.4649.4186TE
8Oroville Dam United States196859.62304.36819TE/ER
9San Luis Dam (BF Sisk Dam) United States196759.6932.52424TE
10Nurek Dam Tajikistan19805430010.53,200TE
11Samara Dam Russia195554[4]5257.32,315TE or ER
12Garrison Dam[2] United States195450.86429583.3TE
13Cochiti Dam United States197550.276.50.73NATE
14Aswan Dam[7] Egypt197044.31111692,100TE/ER
15W. A. C. Bennett Dam Canada196843.71867.42,876TE
16San Roque Dam Philippines200340[8]2000.835345TE or ER
17Fort Randall Dam[2] United States195338.250.36.7320TE/ER
18Afsluitdijk Netherlands193236.5[4]135.50TE/ER
19Kölnbrein Dam Austria197935.22001.581,028.5TE
21Guri Dam Venezuela197829.816213510,235PG/ER
22Three Gorges Dam China200827.4[9]18139.322,500PG
23 Indira Sagar Dam  India 2005 12.2 92 9.75 1,000 PG

Type: TE - Earth; ER - Rock-fill; PG - Concrete gravity; CFRD - Concrete face rock fill; AG - Arch-gravity.

List of largest tailings dams

RankNameCountryYear completedStructure volume [106 m3]Structure height [m]Reservoir volume [109 m3]Installed capacity [MW]Type
1Syncrude Tailings Dam Mildred MLSB[10] Canada1995540[4]/720880.35NATE
2Syncrude Tailings Dam#South West Sand Storage (SWSS)[11] Canada2010119[4]40-500.25[4]NATE
3ASARCO Mission Mine Tailings Dam United States197240.130[12]0 [13]NAER

Type: TE - Earth; ER - Rock-fill; PG - Concrete gravity; CFRD - Concrete face rock fill.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Tarbela Dam Project" (PDF). WAPDA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-07-25. Retrieved 2015-07-25.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-07. Retrieved 2022-05-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-18. Retrieved 2010-09-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Estimate based on height, dimensions from Google Earth and, where available, cross section. Accuracy ±15%
  5. ↑ 700 km2 × 3 m
  6. ↑ "South Saskatchewan River Project|Fact Sheet" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2010-12-16.
  7. ↑ "Embankment dams | Structurae". En.structurae.de. Retrieved 2011-02-16.
  8. ↑ "San Roque Dam". NAPOCOR. Archived from the original on 2015-08-24. Retrieved 2015-07-25.
  9. ↑ Wieland, Martin; Ren, Qingwen; Tan, John S. Y. (14 May 2014). New Developments in Dam Engineering. CRC Press. ISBN 9780203020678. Retrieved 2015-07-25.
  10. ↑ D. Nicol (1994) "The Syncrude Mildred Lake Tailings Dyke Redesign", 18th Int. Congr. Large Dams.
  11. ↑ "Microsoft Word - Baseline Report on Fluid Deposits revE" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-02-16.
  12. ↑ Estimate based on structure volume and dimensions from Google Earth
  13. ↑ Zero reservoir size because full of tailings
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