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Ocoee Dam No. 2 utilizes a wooden flume that carries water from the reservoir down the side of the Ocoee Gorge to the dam's powerhouse 5 miles (8.0 km) downstream. It is situated at the center of one of the nation's top whitewater rafting locations, and the dam's releases help to maintain consistent rapids on the river during warmer months. [1]
Walter Bouldin Dam is a dam in Elmore County, Alabama. The closest town is Wetumpka . The earthen dam was constructed in 1967 by the Alabama Power Company , with a height of 170 feet (52 m), and a length of 11,178 feet (3,407 m) at its crest. [ 1 ]
Lake Lure – Duke Power; Lake Michie – finished in 1926, on the Flat River; Mountain Island Dam and Mountain Island Lake – Duke Power; Randleman Lake Dam, [4] completed in 2003; Rocky Mount Mills Dam - built in the early 1800s at a rocky outcrop for which the city is named; designed to accommodate the needs of the cotton mill
Blue Ridge Dam is a hydraulic earth-fill type dam 167 feet (51 m) high and 1,000 feet (300 m) long, and has a generating capacity of 22 megawatts. [2] The dam's gate-controlled saddle spillway— which is separated from the main dam by a small hill— can discharge up to 55,000 cubic feet (1,600 m 3) of water per second.
Millers Ferry Lock and Dam is a lock and hydroelectric dam on the Alabama River, near the community of Millers Ferry, Alabama. It was built by and continues to be operated by the United States Army Corps of Engineers. Construction of the complex began in 1963 and was completed in 1974. [1]
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Completed on June 2, 1966, the dam and reservoir were named for H. Neely Henry, a senior executive vice-president of Alabama Power. The dam has a 72,900 kilowatt generating capacity; the lake covers 11,200 surface acres (45.3 km 2 ) with a total capacity of 129,800 acre-feet (0.1601 km 3 ) and about 339 miles (546 km) of shoreline.