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Tucurui Dam in Brazil, Three gorges dam in China and Grand Coulee Dam in the USA are three examples of three mega dams. The Tucuruí Hydropower Complex is situated on the lower Tocantins River within the Tocantins-Araguaia River Basin adjacent to the Amazon basin in northeastern Brazil. The project was designed to be constructed in two phases, Phase I construction was started on November 24, 1975 and completed November 10, 1984, and the construction on Phase II began in June 1998 with the first turbine scheduled to be operational by December 2002. The complex was built with the primary motive of producing hydropower although the secondary goal of providing a navigable river route was later introduced. The Grand Coulee Dam began in March 1999. The study was led by Professor Len Ortolano (Stanford University), and Doctor Katherine Cushing (Berkeley University), with the collaboration of the US Bureau of Reclamation, US Corps...

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