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Deep Creek Lake is a man-made reservoir in the U.S. state of Maryland. [1] It has an area of 3,900 acres (16 km 2), a shoreline length of 69 miles (111 km), and a volume of 106,000 acre⋅ft (0.131 km 3). [2] [3] The lake is home to a wide variety of aquatic
Lake Roland Historic District, declared in 1992, is a national historic district in Baltimore City and Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. [4] It consists of a man-made lake, Lake Roland , portions of the Jones Falls and Roland Run streambeds, and portions of the rights-of-way of former Green Spring Valley Railroad and the Northern ...
Lake Roland is a 100-acre (0.40 km 2) defunct reservoir in Baltimore County, Maryland. It was named for Roland Run, a nearby stream that feeds the lake and eventually flows into Jones Falls . It runs southeast through the city center to the Northwest Branch of the Patapsco River and the Baltimore Harbor .
As far back as 1990, city-sponsored planning studies showed support for the idea of partially demolishing I-83 and thus daylighting the Jones Falls. [3] More recent suggestions include a long-range plan proposed by Marc Szarkowski, while he was working for the Philadelphia firm Dremodeling, and a more immediate and concrete plan commissioned by the city from Baltimore-based Rummel, Klepper ...
Jennings Randolph Lake. Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Maryland. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3). [1]
Lake Kittamaqundi is a man made 27-acre (110,000 m 2) reservoir located in Columbia, Maryland in the vicinity of the Mall in Columbia as well as Merriweather Post Pavilion. It is also adjacent to offices and visible from US-29. [1] The lake was created by The Rouse Company in 1966 during the development of
Lake Elkhorn is a 37-acre (150,000 m 2) [2] reservoir located in the Owen Brown area of Columbia, Maryland. It is Columbia's third and largest lake. [3] [4] Its main features are a small dam and a park with a picnic pavilion and a two-mile (3 km) walking path around the lake. The path was built in 1982 [5] and is surrounded by a park and ...
The Maryland Historical Trust (MHT) describes the district as follows: . The Bare Hills Historic District, covering approximately 275 acres, takes its name from the geological formation it in part encompasses, a promontory of Serpentine (“copper rock”) around which the Jones Falls flows on its way to Baltimore and the Chesapeake Bay.