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Chickahominy Reservoir is located near U.S. Highway 20 100 miles (160.9 km) east of Bend, Oregon, and 32 miles (51.5 km) west of Burns, Oregon, in the United States. It was built as an irrigation reservoir, but is now managed by Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife as a recreational fishery. The reservoir is very long and is narrow at points ...
The Chickahominy is an 87-mile-long (140 km) [1] river in eastern Virginia. The river, which serves as the eastern border of Charles City County , rises about 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Richmond and flows southeast and south to the James River .
The dam is constructed of rock and earth and is the tallest earthen dam east of the Mississippi River. The dam has a diversion tunnel that is 2,407 feet (734 m). It is a horseshoe shape with a bottom width of 23 feet (7.0 m). [2] The lake is the deepest manmade reservoir east of the Mississippi River and deepest lake in Georgia.
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The nearly 8100 major dams in the United States in 2006. The National Inventory of Dams defines a 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).
Location: Blue Ridge Mountains Gilmer & Murray counties, Georgia United States: Coordinates: Type: natural lake, reservoir: Primary inflows: Coosawattee River: Basin countries: United States: Surface area: 3,200 acres (13 km 2) Average depth: 200 ft (61 m) Max. depth: 450 ft (140 m)
Chickahominy may refer to Chickahominy people, a Native American tribe; Chickahominy River, a river in eastern Virginia; Chickahominy, a neighborhood in Greenwich, ...
In Murray County, the river is impounded by Carters Dam, forming Carters Lake behind the dam. (The lake is located mostly in Gilmer County). Completed in 1977, Carters Dam is the tallest earthen dam east of the Mississippi River. [3] The Coosawattee River leaves the dam flowing west (directly into the Reregulation Reservoir).