Palisades Dam (National ID # ID00273) is an earth-fill dam on the Snake River in Bonneville County in the U.S. state of Idaho. The dam was completed in 1957 and provides irrigation water flood control and recreation; it features a four-turbine hydroelectric power plant. The dam can potentially generate 176.5 MW of electricity. The resulting water impoundment Palisades Reservoir has a storage capacity of 1.2 million acre-feet.The dam was constructed as the principal feature of the U.S.
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