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The dam is owned and operated by the Louisville District, Great Lakes and Ohio River Division of the Corps of Engineers. The riverine reservoir it creates, Brookville Lake , has a normal water surface of 8.2 square miles (21 km 2 ), a maximum capacity of 359,600 acre-feet (443,600,000 m 3 ), and normal storage of 184,900 acre-feet (228,100,000 ...
Cities and towns on the Whitewater River (north to south) include Hagerstown, Cambridge City, Connersville, Laurel, Metamora, Brookville, Harrison (Ohio), and Lawrenceburg. Richmond, Indiana is on the East Fork of the Whitewater River and is the most significant town in the river valley, containing most of the population of the valley. The West ...
Whitewater Memorial is the sixteenth state park in Indiana.It is located 47 miles (76 km) in Union County, Indiana, west-southwest of Dayton, Ohio.At 23,000 acres (93 km 2), it is the third-largest state park in Indiana; its seventeen miles (27 km) stretches between Brookville, Indiana, and Liberty, Indiana, paralleled by Indiana State Road 101.
It is 3 miles (5 km) east of Blooming Grove, 6 miles (10 km) north of Brookville and 14 miles (23 km) southeast of Connersville. According to the United States Census Bureau, the Lakeshore Resort CDP has a total area of 0.38 square miles (0.98 km 2), of which 0.001 square miles (0.003 km 2), or 0.26%, are water. [1]
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The Ottu barrage was constructed in 1896-97 using low-cost labor that was available due to a famine in the region at that time. [1] Prior to the construction of the barrage and its associated reservoir and canals, agriculture in the then princely state of Bikaner had come under pressure from fluctuating water-supply in the monsoon season caused by diversions in the Ghaggar by riparian farmers ...
Brookville is also at the southern end of Brookville Lake, impounded in 1974 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers. According to the 2010 census, Brookville has a total area of 1.54 square miles (3.99 km 2 ), of which 1.5 square miles (3.88 km 2 ) (or 97.4%) is land and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km 2 ) (or 2.6%) is water.
The park's main feature is William H. Harsha Lake, a 2,107-acre (853 ha) reservoir [4] created in 1978. The lake's large earthen dam and smaller saddle dams are operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. [5] Fish found in the lake include largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, Kentucky spotted bass, bluegill, white crappie, black crappie, channel ...