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The Army Corps of Engineers targets keeping the surface of the lake between 12.5 and 15.5 feet (4 and 5 m) above sea level. [28] The lake is enclosed by a 40 feet (12 m) high Herbert Hoover Dike built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers after a hurricane in 1928 breached the old dike, flooding surrounding communities and killing at least 2,500 ...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers measured the amount of water flowing through the Mississippi River and compared it to the amount entering the Atchafalaya Basin by monitoring "latitude flow" at the latitude of the Red River Landing, located five miles (8.0 km) downstream of Old River. In this case, latitude flow is a combination of the flows of ...
The United States Army Corps of Engineers Great Lakes and Ohio River Division (LRD) is one of the eight permanent divisions of the Army organization, providing civil works and military water resource services/infrastructure. It also supports economically viable and environmentally sustainable watershed management and water resources development ...
USGS topographical map of Lake Red Rock, showing Red Rock Dam, and left-center, the mouth of White Breast Creek Red Rock Dam and Lake Red Rock (Army Corps of Engineers) Lake Red Rock, also referred to as Red Rock Reservoir is a reservoir formed by Red Rock Dam on the Des Moines River, about 41 miles (66 km) southeast of the city of Des Moines ...
Optima Lake was built to be a reservoir in Texas County, Oklahoma.The site is just north of Hardesty and east of Guymon in the Oklahoma Panhandle. [2]The earthen Optima Lake Dam (National ID # OK20510) was completed in 1978 (46 years ago) () by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, with a height of 120 feet (37 m), and a length at its crest of 16,875 feet (5,144 m). [3]
Richard B. Russell Lake (known to locals as simply "Lake Russell") is a reservoir created by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers by construction of Richard B. Russell Dam on the Savannah River bordering Elbert County, Georgia and Abbeville and Anderson counties in South Carolina. The lake impounds primarily the Savannah River but also includes ...
Englebright Lake is an 815 acre reservoir on the Yuba River, impounded by Englebright Dam, in the Sierra Nevada, Northern California, United States. [1] The reservoir stores 45,000 acre feet of water with nearly 24 miles of shoreline.
Fayette County Lake is a 60-acre (240,000 m 2) lake located 6 miles (10 km) southeast of Fayette off County Road 26. Fayette County is a prohibition or dry county.; Lamar County Lake is a 68-acre (280,000 m 2) lake located 8 miles (13 km) west of Vernon on Alabama State Route 18, then 5 miles (8 km) north off County Road 21.