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According to the 2004 TVA River and Reservoir Operations Study, Watauga Lake is approximately 16.3 mi (26.2 km) long, with 104.9 mi (168.8 km) of shoreline. At the TVA summertime water level target "full pool", the lake surface covers 6,430 acres (26 km²) and the estimated depth of Watauga Lake is 265 feet (81 m) at the dam.
Watauga Lake is bridged by Tennessee State Route 67 over Butler Memorial Bridge just as the watercourse enters Carter County. The Appalachian Trail crosses the river on Watauga Dam. Nearly 3 miles below Watauga Dam, on the Horseshoe section of the Watauga River, is the TVA Wilbur Dam , which forms a much smaller but very deep reservoir known as ...
The water eventually flows through the Watauga River, the Holston River, the Tennessee River, the Ohio River, and the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico. For more information on waterfalls in the Elk River drainage, see Waterfalls of Tennessee by Gregory Plumb, ISBN 1-57072-057-6
Douglas Lake rose nearly 22 feet in three days between Sept. 26-29, equal to 182 billion gallons of water. TVA continues to release more than 440,000 gallons a second into the French Broad River.
The dam impounds the TVA Watauga Reservoir of 6,430 acres (2,600 ha), [2] and its tailwaters feed into Wilbur Lake. [3] Its namesake, the Watauga River, [3] was named after a Cherokee settlement—the Watauga Old Fields—once located along the river at modern Elizabethton. [4] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August ...
Pages in category "Bodies of water of DuPage County, Illinois" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Emergency officials warned in a 6 p.m. ET Facebook post that Lake Lure Dam water levels are now receding. Emergency personnel have rescued more than 25 people through "swift water rescue."
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