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Lake Lanier (officially Lake Sidney Lanier) is a reservoir in the northern portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. It was created by the completion of Buford Dam on the Chattahoochee River in 1956, and is also fed by the waters of the Chestatee River .
Scale depiction of the 15 largest lakes in the US. The following is a list of the 100 largest lakes of the United States by normal surface area.The top twenty lakes in size are as listed by the National Atlas of the United States, a publication of the United States Department of the Interior.
Buford Dam is a dam in Buford, Georgia which is located at the southern end of Lake Lanier, [4] a reservoir formed by the construction of the dam in 1956. The dam itself is managed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers.
Located roughly an hour's drive northeast of Atlanta, Lake Lanier covers nearly 60 square miles (155 square kilometers) and has waters up to 160 feet (49 meters) deep.
A 23-year-old man drowned last Saturday after slipping and falling off a dock into Georgia’s Lake Lanier, ... Situated northeast of Atlanta with waters up to 160-feet deep, the lake sits atop an ...
Lake Lanier draws millions of visitors each year with fun activities like swimming and boating, but the area's history is much deeper. ... Lake Sidney Lanier, Georgia. ... Arctic deep freeze ...
Lake Lanier is the largest lake in Georgia [18] followed by Lake Oconee as the second largest. [19] Lake Lanier is 26 miles (42 km) long and covers approximately 47 miles (76 km) of riverbed [20] Lake Oconee is 20 miles (32 km) long and about a mile wide. [19]
Levels in Lake Lanier have gone up and down at times in its history, but the lake’s elevation has remained fairly steady so far this year, data from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers shows.