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The Kinzua Dam, on the Allegheny River in Warren County, Pennsylvania, is one of the largest dams in the United States east of the Mississippi River. [1] It is located within the Allegheny National Forest. The dam is located 6 miles (10 km) east of Warren, Pennsylvania, along Route 59, within the 500,000-acre (200,000 ha) Allegheny National ...
The Allegheny Reservoir is a man-made lake created along the Allegheny River with the construction of the Kinzua Dam in 1965. The dam was authorized by the United States Congress as a flood control measure in the Flood Control Acts of 1936 and 1938, and was built by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers beginning in 1960.
The creation of the Allegheny Reservoir when the Kinzua Dam was completed in 1965 brought the most dramatic change to developed recreation on the ANF. Within ten years, a tremendous development program resulted in campgrounds, boat launches, beaches, picnic areas, hiking trails and overlooks around the reservoir shoreline and elsewhere ...
There is a state owned carry down launch located in Allegany State Park off NY-280. [2] The state park also offers a swimming area and facilities on the lake. Quaker Lake was constructed in the 1960s, one of the byproducts of the Kinzua Dam construction. A spillway across Route 280 empties the lake into the Allegheny Reservoir.
During this time, two major projects along the Allegheny River, the Kinzua Dam to the south and the Southern Tier Expressway to the north, were underway, and the state of New York attempted to evict those who remained in Elko and Red House through eminent domain using those projects as a pretense; what usable land that remained would be ...
Kinzua, flooded by Allegheny Reservoir; Livermore, flooded by the Conemaugh Dam; Marburg, under Lake Marburg. [34] Milford Mills, flooded by creation of Marsh Creek Lake; Social Hall, under the waters of Conemaugh River Lake. [32] Somerfield, under the waters of Youghiogheny River Lake. [35] Straight, under the waters of East Branch Lake. [36]
The national recreation area is divided into two units, one around Allegheny Reservoir upstream from Kinzua Dam, and another to the south of Warren on the east bank of the Allegheny River. [ 1 ] Allegheny National Recreation Area was established by the 1984 Pennsylvania Wilderness Act, Public Law 98-585.
A 24-mile-long portion of the upper river in Warren and McKean counties of Pennsylvania and Cattaraugus County in New York forms the Allegheny Reservoir, which was created by the erection of the Kinzua Dam in 1965 for flood control.