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Lake Keowee's waters cover approximately 18,500 acres (75 km 2) and there are 300 miles of shoreline. The full water elevation of Lake Keowee is around 800 feet. It is 23 miles long and 3 miles wide at the widest point. The average depth is 54 feet. Drinking water. The lake provides drinking water to Greenville and Seneca and surrounding areas ...
Keowee (Cherokee: ᎫᏩᎯᏱ, romanized: Guwahiyi) was a Cherokee town in the far northwest corner of present-day South Carolina.It was the principal town of what were called the seven Lower Towns, located along the Keowee River (Colonists referred to the lower reaches of the river as the Savannah in its lower reaches, with its mouth at the city they named Savannah).
The Keowee River flows out of Lake Jocassee Dam and into Lake Keowee, a reservoir created by Keowee Dam and Little River Dam. The Keowee River flows out of Keowee Dam to join Twelvemile Creek near Clemson, South Carolina, forming the beginning of the Seneca River, a tributary of the Savannah River. The Keowee River is 25.7 miles (41.4 km) long. [1]
The remaining storage in Lake Keowee and Jocassee is balanced weekly with the storage in the three U.S. Army Corps of Engineer lakes: Hartwell, Russell, and Thurmond.
South Carolina Highway 130 (SC 130) is a 30.072-mile (48.396 km) state highway in Oconee County, South Carolina, connecting Clemson and eastern Oconee County with access to Lake Keowee, Lake Jocassee, and the Blue Ridge Mountains.
The station near Salem, built in 1973, with its upper reservoir, Lake Jocassee, borders the Carolinas. The station near Devils Fork State Park off of State Highway 11 provides clean power to more ...
The property on Lake Keowee was one of just a few tracts not owned by Duke Energy when the lake was built in 1971. This $5.9 million SC lake house property could be subdivided for two more. Take a ...
Jocassee Dam (often called Lake Jocassee Dam) is an embankment dam on the Keowee River, straddling the border of Pickens and Oconee counties in South Carolina in the United States. The dam forms Lake Jocassee , which is fed by the Toxaway , Thompson, Horsepasture and Whitewater Rivers, and serves primarily for hydroelectric power generation and ...