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Lake Allatoona (officially called Allatoona Lake) is a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reservoir on the Etowah River in northwestern part of the State of Georgia. This reservoir is mostly in southeastern Bartow County and southwestern Cherokee County. A small portion is located in Cobb County near Acworth. Cartersville is the nearest city to ...
Location: Grainger / Hamblen / Jefferson / Hawkins counties, Tennessee, United States: Coordinates: 1]: Type: Reservoir: Primary inflows: Holston River: Primary outflows: Holston River: Basin countries: United States: Managing agency: Tennessee Valley Authority: Surface area: 28,780 acres (11,650 ha): Average depth: 30 ft (9.1 m): Water volume: 749,400 acre⋅ft (924,400,000 m 3): Shore length ...
Lake Lanier rose quickly, while Lake Allatoona soared to more than ten feet or three meters over full pool, using its flood reserve capacity for the first time after years of the 2006–2009 Southeastern U.S. drought. Lake Allatoona reached its highest level since 1990.
Sep. 2—ACWORTH — A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers decision means that Georgia has secured water supply requests from Lake Allatoona that will supply Cobb and other metro areas through 2050. The ...
Cherokee Dam is a gravity-type concrete spillway dam consisting of nine crest gates and eight sluice gates (the latter allowing reservoir control when water level is low). [1] The combined capacity of the dam's four hydroelectric generators is 135,200 kilowatts. Cherokee Lake has a flood-storage capacity of 749,406 acre-feet (924,379,000 m 3). [4]
The Little River is the largest tributary of the Etowah, their confluence now flooded by Lake Allatoona. Allatoona Creek is another major tributary, flowing north from Cobb County and forming the other major arm of the lake. The U.S. Board on Geographic Names officially named the river in 1897. The river ends at 571 feet (174 m) above mean sea ...
The Little River is a 29.3-mile-long (47.2 km) [1] tributary of the Etowah River in the U.S. state of Georgia in the United States.. The Little River is located mostly in Cherokee County, and forms the jagged part of the Cherokee/Fulton (formerly Cherokee/Milton) county line, and part of the more recent Milton city limit.
Ocoee Dam No. 2 on the Ocoee River impounds Ocoee Lake No. 2; Ocoee Dam No. 3 on the Ocoee River impounds Ocoee Lake No. 3; South Holston Dam dams the South Fork Holston River, forming South Holston Lake; Tellico Dam on the Little Tennessee River forms Tellico Lake; Tims Ford Dam on the Elk River impounds Tims Ford Lake