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The 75-foot (23 m)-high dam was built in 1910 by H.M. Byllesby & Company to impound the Cannon River for hydroelectric power. Its nameplate capacity is 1.8 MW. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Byllesby, a former employee of both Edison and Westinghouse, formed what would become Northern States Power in 1909.
Much of the river's course through West Virginia is designated as the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, and the New River is one of the nation's American Heritage Rivers. In 1975, North Carolina designated a 26.5-mile (42.6 km) segment of the river as "New River State Scenic River", by including it in the state's Natural and Scenic ...
Hawks Nest Dam: Hawks Nest: CSX New River Subdivision (#1 Main) New River Gorge Bridge US 19: Fayetteville–Lansing: 1977 [20: Tunney Hunsaker Bridge CR 82 1997 [20] CSX New River Subdivision (#2 Main [26]) CR 25 2 (Thurmond Road) / R.J. Corman Railroad West Virginia Line Thurmond
Lake Byllesby is a 1,432-acre (580 ha) artificial lake on the Cannon River in Dakota and Goodhue counties, in the U.S. State of Minnesota.The lake was formed as a result of construction of the Byllesby Dam by the H.M. Byllesby & Company, which would later become Northern States Power Company for hydroelectric power generation. [1]
An estimated $22 million is required to renovate an enormous earthen Santa Cruz Valley dam built near Chimayó in the ... Nearby residents eye at-risk dam, rainstorms with worry, wariness Skip to ...
With a total area of 121,590 square miles (314,900 km 2), [1] New Mexico is the fifth-largest state, after Alaska, Texas, California, and Montana. Its eastern border lies along 103°W longitude with the state of Oklahoma , and 2.2 miles (3.5 kilometres) west of 103°W longitude with Texas (due to a 19th-century surveying error).
The New River's flow is composed of agricultural and chemical runoff waste from farm industry irrigation in the U.S. (18.4%) and Mexico (51.2%), sewage from Mexicali (29%), and manufacturing plants operating in Mexico (1.4%). Where New River crosses the Mexico–U.S. border near Calexico, California, its channel contains a stew of about a ...
The northern dam, also known as the Diamond A dam [1] or the first dam, is 5000 feet long and 95 feet tall. It is 525 feet wide at the base and 24 feet wide at the top. It crosses the Hondo River. At the base of the dam there is a flood control gate which can be closed to prevent flood waters from flowing downstream.