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The system was renamed the McAlpine Locks and Dam in 1960 in honor of William McAlpine, who was the only civilian to have ever served as district engineer for the Corps of Louisville. At present, the normal pool elevation is 420 feet (130 m) above sea level and the drainage area above the dam is 91,170 square miles (236,000 km 2).
Middle gate of 5 upper gates at McAlpine Dam. (There are 4 more such gates at the lower gate site, next to the LG&E Ohio Falls Generating Station.) These gates are called Tainter gates after their designer, Jeremiah Burnham Tainter (1836-1920). Each gate is 100 feet wide and 22 feet high.
Lizzy McAlpine was born on September 21, 1999, to father Mark McAlpine and mother Robin Lacey and grew up in Narberth, Pennsylvania, in the suburbs of Philadelphia with her sibling Emory. [3] [4] [5] She has written music since she was in 6th grade. [6] She attended Lower Merion High School, where she sang in a co-ed a cappella group and did ...
An early map of the Falls of the Ohio; Louisville, Kentucky is in the lower right The area is located at the Falls of the Ohio, which was the only navigational barrier on the river in earlier times. The falls were a series of rapids formed by the relatively recent erosion of the Ohio River operating on 386-million-year-old Devonian hard ...
Lizzy McAlpine's song "Ceilings" went viral on TikTok last year. Her new album "Older," coming to the Greek Theatre, sounds nothing like it. Lizzy McAlpine follows her breakout hit with an 'Older ...
Tributary to McAlpine Creek: Catawba River: Recreation dam. Shuford Mill Dam 35 ft (11 m) 2016 Brookford: Henry Fork River: Rowland Lake Lower Dam (Ray Durham Lower Dam) 26 ft (7.9 m) 2004 Gaston County
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The Louisville and Portland Canal was a 1.9-mile (3.1 km) [1] canal bypassing the Falls of the Ohio River at Louisville, Kentucky.The Falls form the only barrier to navigation between the origin of the Ohio at Pittsburgh and the port of New Orleans near the Gulf of Mexico; circumventing them was long a goal for Pennsylvanian and Cincinnatian merchants. [2]