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Occoquan Dam. Occoquan Reservoir is a 2,100-acre (850 ha) reservoir in northeast Virginia, southwest of Washington, D.C., straddling part of the boundary between Fairfax and Prince William Counties, west of Alexandria. It is formed by the Occoquan Dam on the Occoquan River.
The Occoquan Reservoir stretches from Occoquan to Bull Run. Further upriver is Lake Jackson. The dam that creates Lake Jackson is at Virginia State Route 234, Dumfries Road, and is a former hydroelectric facility. Today the dam contains the lake, but has not produced electricity in several decades.
Adam T. Bower Memorial Dam near Sunbury, Pennsylvania: 8 ft (2.4 m) 0: PA: Shamokin Dam power plant low head dam: 0: PA: Clarks Ferry Dam: 0: PA: Canal for the Wiconisco Canal around the site of Clarks Ferry Bridge. Demolished. Dock Street Dam: 6 ft (1.8 m) 0: PA: 1913: York Haven Dam: 18 ft (5.5 m) 21: PA: Wrightsville Dam: 10 ft (3.0 m) 0: PA ...
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).
The Virginia General Assembly is set to send a bill to Gov. Glenn Youngkin's desk to establish a PFAS reduction program for the Occoquan Reservoir, a key drinking water source for Northern Virginia.
Occoquan (/ ˈ ɒ k ə k w ɒ n /) [6] is a town in eastern Prince William County, Virginia founded in 1804. [7] The population was 934 at the 2010 United States Census . The current mayor is Earnest W. Porta Jr.
In response to the City of Alexandria’s need for water, Lake Barcroft was formed as a reservoir in 1915, and served as the water supply for the City of Alexandria until the late 1940s; When the need for water increased due to population growth, the City of Alexandria then constructed a dam on the Occoquan River in 1950 to form the Occoquan ...
Occoquan River • average: 9.01 cu ft/s (0.255 m 3 /s) at mouth with Occoquan River [4] Basin features; Progression: generally south [3] River system: Potomac River: Tributaries • left: unnamed tributaries • right: unnamed tributaries: Bridges: Rutledge Drive (x2), Clifton Road, Henderson Road, Cathedral Forest Drive, Hampton Road