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The Hannibal Locks and Dam are a United States Army Corps of Engineers concrete locks and lift gate dam, located at river mile marker 126.4 on the Ohio River at Hannibal, Ohio and New Martinsville, West Virginia. The locks and dam were built to replace the wicket-type locks and dams Number 12, 13 and 14.
New Martinsville is located at (39.657465, -80.859504 Doolin Run and Fishing Creek are located downstream nearby, just south of town. [8] [9]According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.71 square miles (7.02 km 2), of which 2.67 square miles (6.92 km 2) is land and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km 2) is water.
The lake changed sizes as the ice front moved and as the volume of water changed. At its largest, it rose to 1,100 feet (340 m) above sea level. Eventually the water found a low divide near New Martinsville, West Virginia, creating an outlet to the south and west into the Teays River. Thus, the upper Ohio network of river valleys came into form.
According to Pine Grove Recorder Sandra Hurst, the town is buying some water from the Wetzel County Public Service Department sourced from New Martinsville, but that is only a temporary option.
A map of the Ohio River ... The dams raise the water level and have turned the river largely into a ... ended between New Martinsville and Paden City, West Virginia ...
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Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in West Virginia. 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 ).
Fishing Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of West Virginia. [1] It flows into the Ohio River at New Martinsville. [2] Fishing Creek's name comes from the Native Americans of the area, who once fished there. [3]