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This category is for articles about dams in the U.S. state of Illinois ... Pages in category "Dams in Illinois" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 ...
The Illinois Waterway system consists of 336 miles (541 km) of navigable water from the mouth of the Calumet River at Chicago to the mouth of the Illinois River at Grafton, Illinois. Based primarily on the Illinois River , it is a system of rivers, lakes, and canals that provide a commercial shipping connection from the Great Lakes to the Gulf ...
HAER No. IL-27, "Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel Project, Lock & Dam No. 15, Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL", 52 photos, 16 data pages, 4 photo caption pages HAER No. IL-28, " Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel Project, Lock & Dam No. 17, New Boston, Mercer County, IL ", 78 photos, 14 data pages, 5 photo caption pages
The nearly 8100 major dams in the United States in 2006. The National Inventory of Dams defines a major dam as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3).
Watersheds of Illinois is a list of basins or catchment areas into which the State of Illinois can be divided based on the place to which water flows.. At the simplest level, in pre-settlement times, Illinois had two watersheds: the Mississippi River and Lake Michigan, with almost the entire State draining to the Mississippi, except for a small area within a few miles of the Lake.
Category: Dams in the United States by state or territory. ... Dams in Illinois (2 C, 14 P) Dams in Indiana (2 C, 21 P) Dams in Iowa (1 C, 11 P) K. Dams in Kansas (18 P)
Rend Lake is a 13-mile (20.9 km) long, 3-mile (4.8 km) wide reservoir located in Southern Illinois in Franklin and Jefferson Counties near the town of Benton.It contains 18,900 acres (76 km 2) of water, stores 185,000 acre-feet (228,000,000 m 3) of water, and supplies over 15 million gallons of water per day to 300,000 persons in over 60 communities.
Lake Springfield is a 3,965-acre (16.05 km 2) [1] reservoir in the southeast of the capital city of Springfield, Illinois. It is 560 ft (170 m) above sea level. The lake was formed by building Spaulding Dam across Sugar Creek, a tributary of the Sangamon River. It is the largest municipally-owned body of water in Illinois. [1]