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The New River flows in a generally south-to-north course, at times cutting through the southwest-to-northeast-trending ridges and geological texture of the Appalachian Mountains, and flows directly through the Appalachian Plateau, contrasting with the west-to-east flow of most other major rivers to the east and northeast in Virginia and North ...
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.
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]
The Cannon River is a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows 112 miles (180 km) from Shields Lake [3] near Shieldsville to Red Wing in the U.S. state of Minnesota, where it joins the Mississippi River. It drains a watershed approximately 1460 square miles (3,780 km²) in size.
New River Trail: Carroll County; Buck Dam Buck Dam Road Byllesby Dam Fries Junction Bridge: SR 606 (Fries Road) Fries: 1959 [32] Fries Dam Grayson County; SR 94 (Riverside Drive) 2011 [33: US 58 / US 221 (Grayson Parkway) Baywood: 1979, 1999 [33
The 124-foot tall hydroelectric dam, which is on the Broad River, about 25 miles from Asheville, is operated by the town of Lake Lure, according to the National Inventory of Dams. Its maximum ...
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Broken Down Dam, Fergus Falls, Minnesota – Otter Tail River (built 1908, collapsed 1909 - ruins remain in the river for recreation) [15] Flandrau Dam, New Ulm, Minnesota – Cottonwood River (built 1930, removed 1995 after repeated damage from floods) [14] Hanover Dam, Hanover, Minnesota – Crow River (removed after failure 1984) [14]