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Lake Keowee's waters cover approximately 18,500 acres (75 km 2) and there are 300 miles of shoreline. The full water elevation of Lake Keowee is around 800 feet. It is 23 miles long and 3 miles wide at the widest point. The average depth is 54 feet. Drinking water. The lake provides drinking water to Greenville and Seneca and surrounding areas ...
Lake Marion (top) and Lake Moultrie (bottom right) from space. This is a list of lakes and reservoirs in the state of South Carolina in the United States. All major lakes in South Carolina are man-made. Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but not all.
The Jocassee Hydro Station, owned by Duke Energy, is located between Lake Jocassee and Lake Keowee; it is a 610-megawatt, pumped storage facility. Near the Whitewater River, Bad Creek Hydroelectric Station is a 1,065-megawatt pumped-storage facility that started generating electricity in 1991 and is also owned by Duke. [ 10 ]
A boater with fishermen on Lake Jocassee below Bad Creek, a second storage facility for energy, near the lower site of the Jocassee Hydro Station in Salem, S.C. Friday, June 14, 2024.
Keowee-Toxaway State Park is a state park in Pickens County, South Carolina. It was created in 1970 along the shores of Lake Keowee from lands previously owned by Duke Power. [1] The Keowee-Toxaway Museum includes exhibits about the area Cherokee Indians and their interactions with local settlers. There are four interpretive kiosks along one ...
Jocassee Dam (often called Lake Jocassee Dam) is an embankment dam on the Keowee River, straddling the border of Pickens and Oconee counties in South Carolina in the United States. The dam forms Lake Jocassee , which is fed by the Toxaway , Thompson, Horsepasture and Whitewater Rivers, and serves primarily for hydroelectric power generation and ...
A fully furnished house on 1.75 acres on a Lake Keowee peninsula was recently listed for just over $12 million. Located at 132 Mountain Shore Trail in Six Mile, the house will break the record for ...
The Keowee River flows out of Lake Jocassee Dam and into Lake Keowee, a reservoir created by Keowee Dam and Little River Dam. The Keowee River flows out of Keowee Dam to join Twelvemile Creek near Clemson, South Carolina, forming the beginning of the Seneca River, a tributary of the Savannah River. The Keowee River is 25.7 miles (41.4 km) long. [1]