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Leesville Lake is a reservoir in Virginia used for hydroelectric power generation in conjunction with Smith Mountain Lake as a pump storage project. It is located southeast of Roanoke , and southwest of Lynchburg .
This is a list of lakes in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. Virginia has two natural lakes, and several man-made lakes and reservoirs. [ 1 ] Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but not all.
Leesville Lake is known for muskie fishing. There are two privately owned marinas on the lake and multiple youth camps nearby. The Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District spans all or parts of 27 ...
An 81-mile (130 km) section [3] of its lower course in Virginia between the Leesville Lake and Kerr Lake is known as the Staunton River, pronounced / ˈ s t æ n t ən /, as is the Shenandoah Valley city of that name. It is impounded along much of its middle course to form a chain of reservoirs.
Category: Bodies of water of Bedford County, Virginia. ... Leesville Lake; S. Smith Mountain Lake This page was last edited on 23 June 2017, at 03:22 (UTC). ...
All reservoirs in Virginia should be included in this category. ... Leesville Lake; M. Lake Manassas; The Mariners' Lake; Lake Monticello, Virginia; Gathright Dam; N.
Its heyday was short-lived however as the automobile largely replaced train travel and the rail stop was relocated to "Lynch's", becoming Lynch Station, and then later relocated to Altavista, Virginia. Mount Airy was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. [2] Leesville was the birthplace of baseball player Cloy Mattox. [3]
Smith Mountain Lake Dam uses pumped-storage hydroelectricity by which water that is released downstream can be pumped back into Smith Mountain Lake for re-use. The Leesville Dam regulates the Smith Mountain Lake's outflows and stores water to be pumped back into the Smith Mountain Lake for this purpose. Hydro-electricity is usually produced ...