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Lake Keowee's waters cover approximately 18,500 acres (75 km 2) and there are 300 miles of shoreline. The full water elevation of Lake Keowee is around 800 feet. It is 23 miles long and 3 miles wide at the widest point. The average depth is 54 feet. Drinking water. The lake provides drinking water to Greenville and Seneca and surrounding areas ...
The Keowee River flows out of Lake Jocassee Dam and into Lake Keowee, a reservoir created by Keowee Dam and Little River Dam. The Keowee River flows out of Keowee Dam to join Twelvemile Creek near Clemson, South Carolina, forming the beginning of the Seneca River, a tributary of the Savannah River. The Keowee River is 25.7 miles (41.4 km) long. [1]
The Jocassee Hydro Station, owned by Duke Energy, is located between Lake Jocassee and Lake Keowee; it is a 610-megawatt, pumped storage facility. Near the Whitewater River, Bad Creek Hydroelectric Station is a 1,065-megawatt pumped-storage facility that started generating electricity in 1991 and is also owned by Duke. [ 10 ]
A boater with fishermen on Lake Jocassee below Bad Creek, a second storage facility for energy, near the lower site of the Jocassee Hydro Station in Salem, S.C. Friday, June 14, 2024.
Person kayaking down the "Mini Gorge" on the Whitewater River. The Whitewater River is a 14.6-mile-long (23.5 km) river that flows south from headwaters in Transylvania County, North Carolina, over Upper Whitewater Falls and Lower Whitewater Falls before crossing into South Carolina and entering Lake Jocassee, the reservoir behind Lake Jocassee Dam.
Therefore, mean depth figures are not available for many deep lakes in remote locations. [9] The average lake on Earth has the mean depth 41.8 meters (137.14 feet) [9] The Caspian Sea ranks much further down the list on mean depth, as it has a large continental shelf (significantly larger than the oceanic basin that contains its greatest depths).
A fully furnished house on 1.75 acres on a Lake Keowee peninsula was recently listed for just over $12 million. Located at 132 Mountain Shore Trail in Six Mile, the house will break the record for ...
Jocassee Dam (often called Lake Jocassee Dam) is an embankment dam on the Keowee River, straddling the border of Pickens and Oconee counties in South Carolina in the United States. The dam forms Lake Jocassee , which is fed by the Toxaway , Thompson, Horsepasture and Whitewater Rivers, and serves primarily for hydroelectric power generation and ...