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The John H. Kerr Reservoir (often called Kerr Lake in North Carolina and Bugg's Island Lake in Virginia) [1] is a reservoir along the border of the U.S. states of North Carolina and Virginia. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers constructed the John H. Kerr Dam across the Roanoke River between 1947 and 1952 to produce hydroelectricity as well as ...
John H. Kerr Dam is concrete gravity-dam located on the Roanoke River in Virginia, creating Kerr Lake. The dam was built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers between 1947 and 1953 for the purposes of flood control , and hydropower .
The Seli’š Ksanka Qlispe’ Dam, also known as SKQ Dam, (formerly known as the Kerr Dam) is a concrete gravity-arch dam located at river mile 72 of the Flathead River (116 river kilometer). Built in 1938, it raises the level and increases the size of Flathead Lake near Polson, Montana .
Kerr Lake State Recreation Area is a North Carolina state park in Vance and Warren counties, North Carolina, in the United States. Located north of Henderson near the North Carolina- Virginia border, it includes 3,376 acres (13.66 km 2 ) [ 1 ] of woodlands along the shores of the 50,000-acre (202 km 2 ) man-made Kerr Lake .
Buggs Island Lake (Kerr Lake (officially John H. Kerr Reservoir)) Burke Lake; ... North Fork Pound Reservoir (Pound Lake) Nottoway Lake; Occoquan Reservoir; Lake Orange;
Farther downstream in southern along the North Carolina border, the river is impounded by the John H. Kerr Dam to form the expansive Kerr Lake. In northeastern North Carolina, three miles (4.8 km) west of Roanoke Rapids, the river is impounded to form the Lake Gaston reservoir, and is impounded a final time to form Roanoke Rapids Lake.
The water intakes of Hoover Dam on Lake Mead, and the "bathtub ring" behind them, show how far below its historical level the vast reservoir has fallen. ... As long ago as 1893, John Wesley Powell ...
J. Edward Roush Lake Dam; J. Percy Priest Dam; J. Strom Thurmond Dam; Jemez Canyon Dam; Jennings Randolph Lake; Jim Chapman Dam; Jim Woodruff Dam; Joe Pool Dam; John Day Dam; John H. Kerr Dam; John Redmond Reservoir; John T. Myers Locks and Dam; John W. Flannagan Dam; Jordan Lake