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Lake Strom Thurmond, officially designated J. Strom Thurmond Reservoir [1] at the federal level, and Clarks Hill Lake by the state of Georgia, [2] is a man-made reservoir at the border between the U.S. states of Georgia and South Carolina in the Savannah River Basin.
J. Strom Thurmond Dam, [1] also known in Georgia as Clarks Hill Dam, is a concrete -gravity and embankment dam located 22 miles (35 km) north of Augusta, Georgia on the Savannah River at the border of South Carolina and Georgia, creating Lake Strom Thurmond. U.S. Route 221 (and Georgia State Route 150 on the Georgia side of the state line ...
The Flood Control Act of 1966 authorized construction of a new reservoir on the Savannah River to be named Trotters Shoals Lake and Dam. The lake and dam were renamed in 1987 after Georgia senator Richard Brevard Russell Jr. in the same bill that also renamed Clarks Hill Lake to Lake Strom Thurmond. Construction on the new dam began in 1974 and ...
Created in 1941 by the impoundment of the Columbia River by the Grand Coulee Dam. 26. Cayuga Lake. New York. 7,672,000 acre⋅ft (9.5 km 3) 435 ft (133 m) second largest of the Finger Lakes. 27. Rainy Lake.
In 1948, new life came to the city when the U.S. Army moved the Signal Training Center and Military Police School to Camp Gordon. Later, in November 1948, the Clarks Hill Reservoir was created by a newly constructed dam, which provided the city with a supply of hydroelectric power.
Coordinates: 33°56′42″N 82°33′16″W. Fort Charlotte is located in McCormick County, South Carolina, United States, founded in 1768, and now beneath the waters of the J. Strom Thurmond Lake, Clarks Hill Lake .
Clarks Hill or Clark Hill can refer to some places in the United States: Clarks Hill, Indiana. Clark Hill (Oneida County, New York) Clarks Hill, South Carolina. Lake Strom Thurmond, formerly known as Clarks Hill Reservoir.
Clark Reservation State Park. Clark Reservation State Park is a state park in Onondaga County, New York. The park is in Jamesville, NY, in the Town of DeWitt, south of Syracuse. It was the site of a large waterfall formed by melting glacial ice at the end of the last Ice Age; the plunge basin at the base of the old falls is now a small lake.