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Jennings Randolph Lake is a reservoir of 952 acres (3.85 km 2) located on the North Branch Potomac River in Garrett County, Maryland and Mineral County, West Virginia. It is approximately 8 miles (13 km) upstream of Bloomington, Maryland , and approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Elk Garden, West Virginia .
Route map Interstate 79. I-79 highlighted in red ... I-79 is known as the Jennings Randolph Expressway, ... Tygart Lake State Park, ...
Jennings Randolph Lake, named for Senator Jennings Randolph. The lake was originally named Bloomington Lake. The lake was constructed in 1981 on top of the town of Shaw, West Virginia by the United States Army Corps of Engineers. The lake is located near Elk Garden. The lake offers extensive recreational opportunity with its 952 acres (3.85 km ...
Jennings Randolph Lake. Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Maryland.. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "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).
From the Fairfax Stone, the North Branch Potomac River flows 27 miles (43 km) to the man-made Jennings Randolph Lake, an impoundment designed for flood control and emergency water supply. Below the dam, the North Branch cuts a serpentine path through the eastern Allegheny Mountains.
Jennings Randolph Lake. Bloomington on the North Branch of the Potomac. The report proposed a 287-foot (87 m) concrete gravity dam with a gated overflow spillway. The reservoir was to be 1,300 acres (530 ha), impounding 137,000 acre-feet (0.169 km 3). The project was completed in 1981 as Jennings Randolph Lake with a rolled earth and rockfill ...
State Route 11 (SR 11) is a north–south freeway in the northeastern portion of the U.S. state of Ohio.Its southern terminus is at U.S. Route 30 (US 30) in East Liverpool at the West Virginia state line on the Jennings Randolph Bridge over the Ohio River from that state's northern panhandle; its northern terminus is at SR 531 in Ashtabula.
The only dam project that did get built was Jennings Randolph Lake on the North Branch. [34] The Corps built a supplementary water intake for the Washington Aqueduct at Little Falls in 1959. [35] In 1940 Congress passed a law authorizing the creation of an interstate compact to coordinate water quality management among states in the Potomac basin.