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The Roanoke River (/ ˈ r oʊ. ə ˌ n oʊ k / ROH-ə-nohk) runs 410 miles (660 km) long [1] through southern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina in the United States. [2] A major river of the southeastern United States, it drains a largely rural area of the coastal plain from the eastern edge of the Appalachian Mountains southeast across the Piedmont to Albemarle Sound.
John H. Kerr Dam is concrete gravity-dam located on the Roanoke River in Virginia, creating Kerr Lake. The dam was built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers between 1947 and 1953 for the purposes of flood control, and hydropower. The dam also serves wildlife resources, forest conservation, and public recreational uses.
Williamston: Largest community: Williamston: Area • Total. 456.70 sq mi (1,182.8 km 2) ... Lower Roanoke River Wetlands Game Land (part) [6] Major water bodies
Over 7 inches of rain fell in one day in parts of Virginia and North Carolina, causing flooding in Roanoke and bringing a risk of dam failure. Torrential rains pummel Mid-Atlantic with 13 million ...
Roanoke River National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1989 to protect and enhance wooded wetlands consisting of bottomland hardwoods and swamps with high waterfowl value along the Roanoke River. The extensive bottomland hardwood habitat of the Roanoke River National Wildlife Refuge is part of what the Nature Conservancy calls "one of the ...
Unless heavy rain falls in these river basins at approximately the same time as the surge of water from up north arrives, the level of water rise in the middle Mississippi should be less extreme ...
Smith Mountain Dam is a concrete arch dam located on the Roanoke River in Virginia, creating Smith Mountain Lake.The dam was built by Appalachian Power (a division of American Electric Power) between 1960 and 1963 for the purposes of pumped-storage hydroelectricity.
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