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Lake Lanier (officially Lake Sidney Lanier) is a reservoir in the northern portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. It was created by the completion of Buford Dam on the Chattahoochee River in 1956, and is also fed by the waters of the Chestatee River. The lake encompasses 38,000 acres (15,000 ha) or 59 sq mi (150 km 2) of water, and 692 mi (1,114 ...
Scale depiction of the 15 largest lakes in the US. The following is a list of the 100 largest lakes of the United States by normal surface area.The top twenty lakes in size are as listed by the National Atlas of the United States, a publication of the United States Department of the Interior.
Creates. Lake Lanier. Commission date. 1958; 66 years ago (1958) [3] Annual generation. 250 GWh. Buford Dam is a dam in Buford, Georgia which is located at the southern end of Lake Lanier, [4] a reservoir formed by the construction of the dam in 1956. The dam itself is managed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers.
Tri-state water dispute. Chattahoochee River in Norcross, Georgia, downstream from Lake Lanier and Buford Dam. The tri-state water dispute is a 21st-century water-use conflict among the U.S. states of Georgia, Alabama, and Florida over flows in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin and the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa River Basin.
Chestatee River. Coordinates: 34°31′41″N 83°56′23″W. The Chestatee River (variant spellings Chestatie, Chestetee, Chostatee, Chosteta, Chestotee; [1] none in modern use) is a 32.76-mile-long (52.72 km) [2] river in the Appalachian Mountains of northern Georgia, USA. The word "Chestatee" is a Cherokee word meaning roughly "pine torch ...
Those events, however, usually occur after a reservoir is filled or sees major water level fluctuations. Levels in Lake Lanier have gone up and down at times in its history, but the lake’s ...
Lake Lanier Islands is a resort complex built on a small group of islands on Lake Lanier, the largest lake in Georgia, located 60 miles northeast of Atlanta, Georgia.The resort complex was established in 1974 and includes a hotel, water park, golf course, multiple conference and meeting venues, beaches, boat docks, and a number of other recreational amenities.
Topographic map showing Wahoo Creek, the Little River branches, and Lake Lanier Map showing Wahoo Creek, the Little River branches, and their sub-watersheds (outlined in pink) The Wahoo Creek-Little River watershed is designated by the United States Geological Survey as watershed HUC 0313000104, and drains an area of approximately 87 square miles.