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Pages in category "Reservoirs in North Carolina" The following 57 pages are in this category, out of 57 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
The North Carolina State Climate Office at North Carolina State University reported that its Mount Mitchell weather station recorded 24.41 in (620 mm) of rainfall. [22] The office referred to the total as "off the charts", comparing it to 16.5 in (420 mm) of rainfall being a once-in-1,000-year flood for the area.
It is the first of North Carolina's state parks to which funds were appropriated for land acquisition and park development from the outset. [13] Crescent Resources (now Crescent Communities) worked with the State of North Carolina and Foothills Conservancy of NC in 2004 to expand the state park, adding 3,000 acres (12 km 2 ) to the park's ...
Lake Glenville is a reservoir located eight miles from Cashiers, North Carolina to the dam and public beach. The headwaters, at Hurricane Creek, are less than two miles. It was formed by the damming of the west fork of the Tuckasegee River in 1941.
Falls Lake is a 12,410 acre (50 km 2) reservoir located in Durham, Wake, and Granville counties in North Carolina, United States.It extends 28 miles (45 km) up the Neuse River to its source at the confluence of the Eno, Little, and Flat rivers, and has a shoreline of 175 miles (280 km).
Part of the Jordan Lake State Recreation Area, [1] the reservoir covers 13,940 acres (5,640 ha) with a shoreline of 180 miles (290 km) at its standard water level of 216 feet (66 m) above sea level. Empounded in 1974, it was developed as part of a flood control project prompted by a particularly damaging tropical storm that hit the region ...
The North Fork Reservoir, north of Black Mountain in eastern Buncombe County, is treating a little over 20 million gallons a day, according to Clay Chandler, a spokesman for the Asheville Water ...
The Tuckertown Reservoir is the reservoir formed by the Tuckertown Dam at the North end of Badin Lake and the High Rock Dam at the bottom of High Rock Lake in the Uwharrie Lakes Region in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The reservoir is located in Davidson County, Stanly County, Montgomery County, and Rowan County and contains the wide and ...