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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).
Part of the Jordan Lake State Recreation Area, [1] the reservoir covers 13,940 acres (5,640 ha) with a shoreline of 180 miles (290 km) at its standard water level of 216 feet (66 m) above sea level. Empounded in 1974, it was developed as part of a flood control project prompted by a particularly damaging tropical storm that hit the region ...
(The Center Square) – Water filtration capacity continues to increase as turbidity improves daily following infrastructure damage caused by Hurricane Helene at a North Carolina reservoir. The ...
Belews Lake is a reservoir in Stokes, Rockingham, Guilford and Forsyth counties of North Carolina, near the towns of Stokesdale and Pine Hall.It was created in 1973 by the Duke Energy corporation as a cooling basin for the corporation's Belews Creek Steam Station, a coal-burning power plant.
The Little River Reservoir is located in Durham, North Carolina, United States, and is one of the main sources of drinking water for the town. The reservoir was created by a dam completed in 1988. [1] It hosts a city park that offers fishing facilities including boat, canoe, and kayak rentals, along with picnic tables and restrooms. [2]
Fisherman on a summer day in 2011 at Lake Chatuge, an artificial reservoir between North Carolina and Georgia. Lake Chatuge is a man-made reservoir in Towns County, Georgia, and Clay County, North Carolina. It was formed by the Tennessee Valley Authority's construction of Chatuge Dam (then the highest earthen dam in the world) in 1942.
Removal of this privately-owned hydropower dam in western North Carolina will be a boon for rafters, kayakers and tubers by allowing the river to flow freely for nearly 80 miles (129 kilometers).