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  2. Lake Lure (North Carolina) - Wikipedia

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    This company funded dam construction on the Broad River which produced the lake after which the town is named. [3] The dam took two years to build and Lake Lure was finally impounded and filled by 1927. [4] At ordinary water levels, Lake Lure covers approximately 720 acres (2.9 km 2) and has a shoreline of approximately 27 miles (43 km). [4]

  3. Lake Lure, North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    Lake Lure is located at According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 14.8 square miles (38 km 2), of which, 13.6 square miles (35 km 2) of it is land and 1.2 square miles (3.1 km 2) of it (8.11%) is water. Panorama of Lake Lure

  4. North Carolina dam holds after heavy rains, concerns about ...

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    Concern about the Lake Lure dam, which is located about 25 miles east of Asheville, grew early Friday morning, when officials sent out urgent warning messages.

  5. Broad River (Carolinas) - Wikipedia

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    This is an incomplete list of dams starting at Lake Lure and moving downstream North Carolina. Lake Lure; Cliffside Steam Station (Duke Energy) on the Border of Rutherford and Cleveland Counties. South Carolina. Gaston Shoals Dam ; Cherokee Falls; Ninety Nine Islands Dam adjacent to the abandoned Cherokee Nuclear Power Plant; Dam and canal at ...

  6. The bridge that connects Lake Lure and Chimney Rock in Lake Lure, N.C. on Saturday, September 29, 2024. For a couple of days, the wreckage left the two communities as isolated as they were a ...

  7. Lake Lure Dam in Western NC stable after imminent failure ...

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    The Lake Lure Dam, which was feared doomed to collapse on Friday, is stable and emergency repairs are set to begin. At the peak of Helene’s rains, a warning went out that the Lake Lure Dam was ...

  8. North Carolina's Lake Lure Dam holding after prompting fears ...

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    LAKE LURE, N.C. – Authorities went house-to-house urging people below the dam of a popular lake in the western North Carolina mountains to evacuate Friday after officials warned the barrier ...

  9. List of dams and reservoirs in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The nearly 8100 major dams in the United States in 2006. The National Inventory of Dams defines a 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).