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Basin countries. United States. Surface area. 305 acres (1.23 km 2) 0.4765 square miles. The Richland Creek Reservoir (RCR) is a reservoir in the northern portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. It will be primarily fed by a raw water pipeline from the Etowah River. [1] The project is slated to be complete by 2019.
The Ohio River is a 981-mile-long (1,579 km) river in the United States. It is located at the boundary of the Midwestern and Southern United States, flowing in a southwesterly direction from western Pennsylvania to its mouth on the Mississippi River at the southern tip of Illinois. It is the third largest river by discharge volume in the United ...
Georgia has abundant water resources. Among the total water resources of 63 billion m 3 /year (long-term average) only 1.6 billion m 3 /year or about 2% are being abstracted. About two thirds of the abstracted water is used for irrigated agriculture, and the other third for municipal and industrial uses.
Lake Lanier (officially Lake Sidney Lanier) is a reservoir in the northern portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. It was created by the completion of Buford Dam on the Chattahoochee River in 1956, and is also fed by the waters of the Chestatee River. The lake encompasses 38,000 acres (15,000 ha) or 59 sq mi (150 km 2) of water, and 692 mi (1,114 ...
The Ohio region, which is listed with a 2-digit hydrologic unit code (HUC) of 05, has an approximate size of 162,916 square miles (421,950 square kilometers ), and consists of 14 subregions, which are listed with the 4-digit HUCs 0501 through 0514. This region includes the drainage of the Ohio River Basin, excluding the Tennessee River Basin.
H. Hard Labor Creek Regional Reservoir. Lake Harding. Lake Hartwell. Hartwell Lakeside Park. Hickory Log Creek Dam. Houston Lake (Georgia)
90000482 [ 1] Added to NRHP. July 5, 1990. The O'Shaughnessy Dam is located on the Scioto River near Dublin, Ohio, United States. The dam forms O'Shaughnessy Reservoir, which is a major source of drinking water for the city of Columbus. It was completed in 1925 following recommendations of then superintendent Jerry O'Shaughnessy (for whom the ...
Water supply. A girl collects clean water from a communal water supply in Kawempe, Uganda. Water supply is the provision of water by public utilities, commercial organisations, community endeavors or by individuals, usually via a system of pumps and pipes. Public water supply systems are crucial to properly functioning societies.