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    Permitted Dams in the State of Iowa

    Metadata Updated: September 8, 2023

    Permitted dams in Iowa and associated attributes, as recorded by the Floodplain Section of the DNR. The dams regulated are those with the parameters listed below: a. Any dam designed to provide a sum of permanent and temporary storage exceeding 50 acre-feet at the top of dam elevation, or 25 acre-feet if the dam does not have an emergency spillway, and which has a height of 5 feet or more. b. Any dam designed to provide permanent storage in excess of 18 acre-feet and which has a height of 5 feet or more. c. Any dam located in or within 1 mile of an incorporated municipality, if the dam has a height of 10 feet or more, stores 10 acre-feet or more at the top of dam elevation, and is situated such that the discharge from the dam will flow through the incorporated area. d. Also regardless of dam height and storage, any urban area dam situated across a stream that has a drainage are of more than two square miles and any dam in a rural area situated across a stream that has a drainage area of more than 10 square mile. The generally known threshold is any dam that has a height of five feet or more and a permanent water storage volume of more than 18 acre-feet. The height is measure from the top of the dam to the lowest point on the downstream side of the dam, usually the streambed.

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    Metadata Created Date January 19, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date September 8, 2023

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    Harvested from Iowa metadata

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date January 19, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date September 8, 2023
    Publisher data.iowa.gov
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://data.iowa.gov/api/views/7nfb-m7fb
    Data First Published 2019-03-01
    Data Last Modified 2023-08-30
    Category Structure
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    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.iowa.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id e760661a-6e2a-4683-869c-4a9797b19d0d
    Harvest Source Id b99375b9-0a36-4269-920a-6778122ddb87
    Harvest Source Title Iowa metadata
    Homepage URL https://data.iowa.gov/d/7nfb-m7fb
    License http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash dfd19135c9afe0cf6d6f8bf00bd9e8c3c750c71ec40fc4521f4ca7e959e230f7
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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