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Lake Keowee's waters cover approximately 18,500 acres (75 km 2) and there are 300 miles of shoreline. The full water elevation of Lake Keowee is around 800 feet. It is 23 miles long and 3 miles wide at the widest point. The average depth is 54 feet. Drinking water. The lake provides drinking water to Greenville and Seneca and surrounding areas ...
Keowee-Toxaway State Park is a state park in Pickens County, South Carolina. It was created in 1970 along the shores of Lake Keowee from lands previously owned by Duke Power. [1] The Keowee-Toxaway Museum includes exhibits about the area Cherokee Indians and their interactions with local settlers. There are four interpretive kiosks along one ...
The park is on a peninsula which extends into Lake Hartwell. [1] Activities available at the park include picnicking, fishing, hiking, boating, swimming, biking, bird watching and geocaching. Amenities include picnic shelters, a boat ramp, two playgrounds, a 5.4 mile long loop bike trail and a lakeside Pavilion available for large gatherings. [2]
The Keowee River flows out of Lake Jocassee Dam and into Lake Keowee, a reservoir created by Keowee Dam and Little River Dam. The Keowee River flows out of Keowee Dam to join Twelvemile Creek near Clemson, South Carolina, forming the beginning of the Seneca River, a tributary of the Savannah River. The Keowee River is 25.7 miles (41.4 km) long. [1]
The Seneca River is created by the confluence of the Keowee River and Twelvemile Creek in northwestern South Carolina, downriver from Lake Keowee near Clemson. It is now entirely inundated by Lake Hartwell, and forms a 21-mile-long (34 km) [2] arm of the lake. The Seneca River and the Tugaloo River join to form the Savannah River. [3]
Built in 1973 as part of the Keowee-Toxaway Project, ... State Park off of State Highway 11 provides clean power to more than 600,000 homes and sits on the lower reservoir on Lake Keowee. Both ...
The arm of the lake on the Little River borders the western side of the peninsula, while the Keowee River arm forms the eastern side and is the border with Pickens County. The two arms of the lake join via a small channel in the south part of the CDP; to the south, across the channel and outside the CDP, is the Oconee Nuclear Station power plant.
Person kayaking down the "Mini Gorge" on the Whitewater River. The Whitewater River is a 14.6-mile-long (23.5 km) river that flows south from headwaters in Transylvania County, North Carolina, over Upper Whitewater Falls and Lower Whitewater Falls before crossing into South Carolina and entering Lake Jocassee, the reservoir behind Lake Jocassee Dam.