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At 71,000 acres (290 km 2), it is the third-largest artificial lake east of the Mississippi River, behind the Kentucky Lake on the Tennessee River and Lake Marion on the Santee River. The J. Strom Thurmond Dam is located upstream from Augusta, Georgia. The Thurmond Lake is one of the Southeast's largest and most popular public recreation lakes.
J. Strom Thurmond Dam, [1] also known in Georgia as Clarks Hill Dam, is a concrete-gravity and embankment dam located 22 miles (35 km) north of Augusta, Georgia on the Savannah River at the border of South Carolina and Georgia, creating Lake Strom Thurmond. U.S. Route 221 (and Georgia State Route 150 on the Georgia side of the state line) cross it.
Scale depiction of the 15 largest lakes in the US. The following is a list of the 100 largest lakes of the United States by normal surface area.The top twenty lakes in size are as listed by the National Atlas of the United States, a publication of the United States Department of the Interior.
Lake Dorene; Clark Hill Dam (J. Strom Thurmond Dam) – Lake Strom Thurmond, also in South Carolina; Goat Rock Dam – Goat Rock Lake; Hartwell Dam – Lake Hartwell, also in South Carolina; Hickory Log Creek Dam – Hickory Log Creek Reservoir (under construction until Oct 2007) Jim Woodruff Dam – Lake Seminole; on Apalachicola River; built ...
Lake Marion (top) and Lake Moultrie (bottom right) from space. This is a list of lakes and reservoirs in the state of South Carolina in the United States. All major lakes in South Carolina are man-made. Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but not all.
Lake Powell, impounded by Glen Canyon Dam, is the second-largest reservoir in the U.S.. This is a list of largest reservoirs in the United States, including all artificial lakes with a capacity greater than or equal to 1,000,000 acre-feet (1.2 km 3).
The Flood Control Act of 1966 authorized construction of a new reservoir on the Savannah River to be named Trotters Shoals Lake and Dam. The lake and dam were renamed in 1987 after Georgia senator Richard Brevard Russell Jr. in the same bill that also renamed Clarks Hill Lake to Lake Strom Thurmond. Construction on the new dam began in 1974 and ...
Āliapa'akai (Salt Lake), in the Honolulu neighborhood of Salt Lake, Hawaii [1] [2] Alieiki Lake [3] Green Lake (Hawaii) (formerly Wai a Pele) [4] [5] (destroyed on 2 June 2018 by an eruption) Hālaliʻi Lake (largest lake in Hawaii) [6] Halulu Lake (largest natural lake in Hawaii) [7] Ka Loko Reservoir [8] Keālia Pond [9] Loʻe Lake [10] Loko ...