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Martin Dam is a concrete arch gravity dam on the Tallapoosa River in Alabama in the United States, about 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Dadeville. Impounding the 40,000-acre (16,000 ha) Lake Martin , the dam was built in the 1920s to provide flood control, hydroelectric power generation and water supply.
Lake Martin is a reservoir, enlarged by the construction of Martin Dam on the Tallapoosa River. The Martin Dam powerhouse is used to generate hydroelectric power for the Alabama Power Company. Construction on Martin Dam began in 1923 and was completed in 1926, creating what was, at that time, the largest human-made body of water in the world.
The reservoir extends 48.5 miles (78.1 km) from Logan Martin Dam upstream to Neely Henry Dam, and it contains 15,263 acres (61.77 km 2). Logan Martin has roughly 273 miles (439 km) of shoreline. Alabama has a lake of a similar name, the Lake Martin on the Tallapoosa River, but Lake Martin and Logan Martin Lake are not part of the same river system.
Lake Tuscaloosa Dam: Lake Tuscaloosa: North River: Lay Dam: Lay Lake: Coosa River: Little Bear Creek Dam: Little Bear Creek Reservoir: Little Bear Creek: Logan Martin Dam: Logan Martin Lake: Coosa River: Martin Dam: Lake Martin: Tallapoosa River: Millers Ferry Lock and Dam: William "Bill" Dannelly Reservoir: Alabama River: Mitchell Dam ...
The first hydroelectric dam in Alabama was built on the Tallapoosa River in 1902, by Henry C. Jones, an Auburn University electrical engineer, at the site of the current Yates Dam. It was destroyed in the flood of 1919 but rebuilt. The dam then belonged to the Montgomery Light & Water Power Company. In 1928 it was replaced by the Yates Dam. [6]
Martin Dam was built at Cherokee Bluffs and completed in 1939. During construction, the community had bathhouses, bunkhouses, a school, commissary, dining hall, recreation hall, camp hospital, and a barber shop.
These include Martin Dam, the dam that creates Lake Martin, a reservoir that contains 30% of the water in the basin. [1] Lake Martin, an "Alabama Treasured Lake", [2] and Cane Creek, an "Outstanding Alabama Water". [3] However, there are 37 waterbodies in the Tallapoosa Basin that are listed as impaired waters.
John Martin Dam (2013) John Martin Dam is an earth-fill embankment dam that stands 118 feet (36 m) tall and 2.6 miles (4.2 km) long. [5] [7] A portion of the dam's midsection is a concrete spillway controlled by 16 radial gates which empty into the Arkansas River.