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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]
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.
The area at risk from the Lake Lure dam failure is highlighted on this map from Google Earth. Residents in the surrounding neighborhoods were ordered to evacuate Friday morning.
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 ...
“You’re looking at 8 to 16 inches of rain in the area of the lake,” Klein said. Lake Lure is considered a “high” hazard dam, according to the National Inventory of Dams — a ...
The dam, built in 1926, sits on the Broad River, which flows from north of Bat Cave and Chimney Rock, N.C., to Lake Lure, where it shifts southeast toward South Carolina.
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).
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 ...