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The Francis E. Walter Dam is an embankment dam located in Bear Creek Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, U.S. Constructed in 1961 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, it spans the Lehigh River at its confluence with the tributary Bear Creek, creating the Francis E. Walter Reservoir. Although the dam was originally constructed for ...
The first rafting outfitter on the Lehigh River was Whitewater Challengers, which was founded in 1975. Water releases from the Francis E. Walter Dam provide enough water to make the river deep enough for boating. Three popular boating trips on the Lehigh River are: [5] White Haven to Rockport – 8.7 miles; Rockport to Glen Onoko – 12.2 miles
Chattahoochee River: Optimist Lake Dam Milkhouse Creek Reservoir Dog River Watershed Point A Dam: Point A Lake: Conecuh River: R.L. Harris Dam: Lake Wedowee (a. k. a. R.L. Harris Lake) Tallapoosa River: Robert F. Henry Lock and Dam: R.E."Bob" Woodruff Lake: Alabama River: Lewis Smith Dam: Lewis Smith Lake: Black Warrior River [2] [3] Yates Dam ...
The utility made the announcement Thursday in a news release, ending a project that had drawn protests from area residents and environmental groups. Alabama Power abandons planned hydroelectric ...
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Pennsylvania.. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "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 earthen dam was constructed in 1967 by the Alabama Power Company, with a height of 170 feet (52 m), and a length of 11,178 feet (3,407 m) at its crest. [1] It impounds the Coosa River for 225 MW of hydroelectric power, the last and largest of Alabama Power's string of seven hydropower facilities on that river. It's also the largest of all ...
Both facilities are named for Alabama Senator John H. Bankhead. The reservoir has a capacity of 296,000 acre-feet (370 million cubic meters), with normal storage of 269,215 acre⋅ft (330 million m 3). The original Bankhead Dam was built in 1915 as the last of an entire navigation system of 17 locks and dams between Mobile and Birmingham. [2]
Wilson Dam is located at river mile 259.4 of the Tennessee River, spanning the river in a roughly north–south orientation between Florence and Muscle Shoals in northern Alabama. [4] The dam is 137 feet (42 m) high and 4,541 feet (1,384 m) long. [5] The dam cost almost $47 million (equivalent to $663 million in 2023 [1]). [6]