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  2. Great Falls Park - Wikipedia

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    Great Falls Park is a small National Park Service (NPS) site in Virginia, United States. Situated on 800 acres (3.2 km 2 ) along the banks of the Potomac River in northern Fairfax County , the park is a disconnected but integral part of the George Washington Memorial Parkway . [ 1 ]

  3. Great Falls (Passaic River) - Wikipedia

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    Great Falls Park as seen from Spruce Street. The Great Falls hydroelectric plant has three Kaplan type turbines with a total capacity of 10.95 Mwe. Flow through each turbine is 710 cfs, with a total flow of 2,130 cfs, 1,377 MGD. Three 8.5' diameter penstocks feed the turbines, with a velocity 12.5 ft/sec and 8.5 mph.

  4. National Register of Historic Places listings in Fairfax ...

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    Great Falls Park Historic District: Great Falls Park Historic District: December 22, 2014 : Bounded by the Potomac River, Georgetown Pike, and River Bend Rd. Great ...

  5. Great Falls park expansion pauses as EPA, state agency weigh ...

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    PATERSON — Construction on the expansion of the Great Falls National Historical Park has paused during the winter as government officials hold private meetings about the dangers posed by ...

  6. Great Falls (Potomac River) - Wikipedia

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    Great Falls is a series of rapids and waterfalls on the Potomac River, 14 miles (23 km) upstream from Washington, D.C., on the border of Montgomery County, Maryland and Fairfax County, Virginia. The Potomac and the falls themselves are legally entirely within Maryland , since the state's border follows the south bank of the river.

  7. This Great Falls Historical Park building in Paterson will ...

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    The pump house at the Great Falls — which is still functioning and critical to the water supply in Paterson, Passaic and Clifton — will be renovated. This Great Falls Historical Park building ...

  8. Superintendent at Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park Darren Boch tours the quarry lawn area under construction along the Passaic River, below the Great Falls in Paterson, NJ on Tuesday ...

  9. Patowmack Canal - Wikipedia

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    The most well known of them is the Great Falls skirting canal, whose remains are managed by the National Park Service since it is within Great Falls Park, an integral part of the George Washington Memorial Parkway. [5] The first section of the canal opened in 1795, and the canal ended operations in 1828.