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Lake Lanier Islands is a resort complex on the lake, opened in 1974, that includes a resort hotel called Legacy Lodge (formerly Emerald Pointe Hotel), a water park, and a golf course, among other amenities. The complex also included a second resort hotel, PineIsle, which operated from 1975 to 2005, and was demolished in 2008.
The Chestatee River enters the sub-watershed immediately south of its confluence with Long Branch, picks up two unnamed branches as well as Cane Branch from the west, before forming the Chestatee arm of Lake Lanier, the northwesternmost arm of the lake. A small portion of the sub-watershed to the west of the Chestatee arm is located in Dawson ...
Relative to others in the state, it is a smaller lake (about 4,750 acres (19.2 km 2) with 135 miles (217 km) of shoreline), which still generates electricity and provides a location for water sports, boating, wakeboarding and fishing. Jackson Lake is formed by the confluence of the Yellow, Alcovy and South rivers.
The lake extends 39.4 miles (63.4 km) up the Savannah River, 29 miles (47 km) up the Little River in Georgia, and 6.5 miles (10.5 km) up the Broad River in Georgia, and 17 miles (27 km) up the Little River in South Carolina, at normal pool elevation of 330 mean sea level, Thurmond Lake comprises nearly 71,100 acres (287 km 2) of water with a ...
Location: Troup County, and Heard County, Georgia, and Chambers County, and Randolph County, Alabama: Coordinates: 1]: Type: Reservoir: Etymology: The near city of West Point, Georgia: Part of: ACF River Basin: Primary inflows: Chattahoochee River: Primary outflows: Chattahoochee River: Catchment area: 3,440 sq mi (8,900 km 2) [2]: Basin countries: United States: Managing agency: U.S. Army ...
Lake George is rated Class AA-Special by New York State and is considered drinking water. Despite being one of the top ten cleanest lakes in the United States in 2023 and 2024, Lake George is also on New York's 303(d) list of impaired waterbodies.
Lake McIntosh is a manmade lake formed by a portion of Line Creek along with other smaller channels of water flowing into it. [citation needed] [4] The lake site was initially identified by Peachtree City developers in 1962. The land was purchased by Fayette County in the 1970s.
Lake Oconee is a reservoir in central Georgia, United States, on the Oconee River near Greensboro and Eatonton. It was created in 1979 when Georgia Power completed the construction of the Wallace Dam on the Oconee River. Lake Oconee runs through Georgia's Morgan, Greene, and Putnam counties and is separated from its sister lake, Sinclair, by ...