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History. Construction on the dam started in 1929 and was completed in 1931. The resulting reservoir, the Lake of the Ozarks, has a surface area of 55,000 acres (22,000 ha), over 1,150 miles (1,850 km) of shoreline, and stretches 94 miles (151 km) from end to end. At the time of construction, it was the largest man-made lake in United States and ...
In 1929, UE completed Bagnell Dam on the Osage River, creating the Lake of the Ozarks with 1,400 miles of shoreline and a power station that generated almost 175 megawatts of hydroelectricity. [2] The associated Union Electric Administration Building-Lakeside was constructed in 1930; it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in ...
Ameren is the holding company for the following: [5] Ameren Missouri; Ameren Illinois; Ameren Transmission Company; Ameren Services; The Ameren Missouri subsidiary owns Bagnell Dam on the Osage River, which forms the Lake of the Ozarks. Ameren Missouri is responsible for managing water levels on the lake according to federal regulations. [6]
The lake was created by the construction of the 2,543-foot-long (775 m) Bagnell Dam by the Union Electric Company of St. Louis, Missouri. The principal engineering firm was Stone and Webster. Construction began August 8, 1929, and was completed in April 1931; the lake reached spillway elevation on May 20, 1931.
Rachel Ramirez, CNN. September 1, 2024 at 6:00 AM. The largest dam removal project in US history is finally complete, after crews last week demolished the last of the four dams on the Klamath ...
The Taum Sauk pumped storage plant is a power station in the St. Francois mountain region of Missouri, United States about 90 miles (140 km) south of St. Louis near Lesterville, Missouri, in Reynolds County. It is operated by Ameren Missouri. The pumped-storage hydroelectric plant was constructed from 1960–1962 and was designed to help meet ...
The Missouri Department of Natural Resources reports that the state has 9 pumped-storage hydroelectricity facilities and 20 conventional hydroelectric plants; the latter including the Bagnell Dam on the Osage River, which has a capacity of 176 MW, [13] and the Table Rock Dam on the White River, close to Branson. [14]
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