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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).
Royal Glen on the South Branch of the Potomac was to provide flood control protection to flood-prone Petersburg, West Virginia, [11] as well as water quality improvement and recreation. The project envisioned a 218-foot (66 m) concrete gravity dam, 700 feet (210 m) wide, and a 5,680-foot (1,730 m) wide earthfill dike.
The flood stage at the Delaware River at Trenton is 20 feet. According to the weather service's model , the Delaware River at Trenton will reach 19 feet on Tuesday, before topping out at 19.9 feet ...
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The dam, which has no major flood control structures upstream, must bear the brunt of spring freshets, and due to a snowy winter and late thaw, in the first week of June 2010 the amount of spring flood water influx was about twice the normal (peaking at 9,700 m 3 /s on 5 June and expected to stay around 7,000 m 3 /s throughout the second and ...
Edison power plant in Williamsport, Maryland, after the March 18, 1936 flood, surrounded by water from the Potomac River. The facility later became the R. Paul Smith Power Station.
As storm after storm impacts the West Coast, producing intense and flooding rainfall, power-outage-inducing winds and over a foot of mountain snow, AccuWeather meteorologists a… Show more
The Raystown Branch Juniata River is the largest and longest tributary of the Juniata River in south-central Pennsylvania in the United States. [ 4 ] The Raystown Branch Juniata River begins along the Allegheny Front in Somerset County and flows 123 miles (198 km) to the confluence with the Juniata River near Huntingdon . [ 5 ]