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In 1987, however, the U.S. Congress passed a South Carolina-sponsored bill to rename the dam and lake after Strom Thurmond, a long-time segregationist Senator from South Carolina. In response, a group of Georgia legislators introduced an eventually unsuccessful bill to rename the lake as "Clarks Hill" once again.
The lake extends 39.4 miles (63.4 km) up the Savannah River, 29 miles (47 km) up the Little River in Georgia, and 6.5 miles (10.5 km) up the Broad River in Georgia, and 17 miles (27 km) up the Little River in South Carolina, at normal pool elevation of 330 mean sea level, Thurmond Lake comprises nearly 71,100 acres (287 km 2) of water with a ...
Name Location Volume Maximum Depth notes 1: Lake Superior: Michigan - Minnesota - Ontario - Wisconsin: 9,799,680,000 acre⋅ft (12,088 km 3) 1,332 ft (406 m) Third-largest fresh-water lake in the world by volume
Brooks urged residents to stay updated on lake levels and alerts by local county officials. A drone image shows homes submerged in flood water from the Catawba River Saturday, September 28, 2024.
Lake effect snow is slamming the Great Lakes, with seven states from Wisconsin to New York under snow alerts on Monday. So far, snow totals have reached 65 inches in Barnes Corners, New York; 30 ...
The Flood Control Act of 1966 authorized construction of a new reservoir on the Savannah River to be named Trotters Shoals Lake and Dam. The lake and dam were renamed in 1987 after Georgia senator Richard Brevard Russell Jr. in the same bill that also renamed Clarks Hill Lake to Lake Strom Thurmond. Construction on the new dam began in 1974 and ...
Clarks Hill or Clark Hill can refer to some places in the United States: Clarks Hill, Indiana; Clark Hill (Oneida County, New York) Clarks Hill, South Carolina; Lake Strom Thurmond, formerly known as Clarks Hill Reservoir
Nantachie Lake; Negro Lake; Raccourci Old River (oxbow lake) Lake Pagie in Terrebonne Parish; Lake Palourde; Pelican Lake in Terrebonne Parish; Lake Peigneur; Lake Pontchartrain (largest water body within Louisiana, not a lake but a tidal estuary) Poverty Point Reservoir; Lake Rodemacher in Rapides Parish; Sabine Lake (extends into Texas)