Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Jordan Lake Dam (also known as the B. Everett Jordan Project and the New Hope Dam) is located at 4 miles (6.4 km) upstream from the mouth of the Haw River in the upper Cape Fear River drainage Completed in 1974 by the Nello L. Teer Company , it is 1,330 feet (410 m) in length and has a top elevation of 266.5 feet (81.2 m) above mean sea level.
Jordan Lake State Recreation Area. / 35.73694°N 79.01694°W / 35.73694; -79.01694. Jordan Lake State Recreation Area is a North Carolina state park spanning Chatham County, and Wake County, North Carolina. It comprises 4,558 acres (18.45 km 2) [ 1] of woodlands along the shores of 13,940-acre (56 km 2) Jordan Lake .
The level of most closed lakes is unstable because if runoff into the lake is lessened, the water balance of a closed lake is altered, and the amount of water in the lake falls. This is what has caused the shrinkage of the Aral Sea, formerly the world's second largest closed lake. Similarly, if runoff into a closed lake is increased, then the ...
The company also plans to install a closed-loop system that captures wastewater from its medical or military products, keeping it from entering the city’s sewers.
As of Wednesday, Jordan Lake was 3.73 feet below full pool, leaving a wide shoreline visible to fishermen and anyone looking out their car windows as they cross the reservoir on U.S. 64 and other ...
The Jordan River or River Jordan (Arabic: نَهْر الْأُرْدُنّ, Nahr al-ʾUrdunn; Hebrew: נְהַר הַיַּרְדֵּן, Nəhar hayYardēn), also known as Nahr Al-Sharieat (Arabic: نهر الشريعة), is a 251-kilometre-long (156 mi) river in the Levant that flows roughly north to south through the Sea of Galilee and drains to the Dead Sea.
The New Hope River is entirely flooded by B. Everett Jordan Lake and is formed at the confluence of New Hope Creek and Morgan Creek. The mouth and source elevations are the normal pool elevations for the lake. The New Hope River contributes 21.8% of the total discharge for the Haw River. Stinking Creek, right bank: 6.49 square miles (16.8 km 2)
10,627 feet (3,239 m) [ 1] Jordan Lake is lake on the northern edge of Duchesne County, Utah, United States. [ 1] The lake is located in the Naturalist Basin, at the eastern foot of Mount Agassiz, within the High Uintas Wilderness in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest. The lake was named for David Starr Jordan, a noted biologist, authority ...