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Located near Englewood, Englewood dam is the largest of the dams maintained by the district. It regulates the flow of the Stillwater River into the Great Miami River. It consists of 3,500,000 cubic yards (2,700,000 m 3) of earth, is 110 feet (34 m) high and stretches 4,716 feet (1,437 m). U.S. Route 40 crosses the top of the
As constructed, the locks were at the southern end of the Loramie Summit, which stretches 21 miles (34 km) from Lockington north to New Bremen. [3]: 21 Lockington was a leading point on the canal: besides its locks, the village is the site of the junction of the canal with Loramie Creek, which it originally spanned with an aqueduct, and the village lay at the end of a feeder line that brought ...
The community of Lockington was approved for incorporation by the Shelby County Commissioners on September 9, 1857, and recorded by the Ohio Secretary of State on January 4, 1858. [4] The first elections were help April 1, 1858, with W. S. Burns elected mayor. The Lockington Post Office was established on June 28, 1847. [6]
Lockington is a town in northern Victoria, Australia in the Shire of Campaspe local government area, 198 kilometres north of the state capital, Melbourne. At the 2021 census , Lockington had a population of 850.
The word dam can be traced back to Middle English, [1] and before that, from Middle Dutch, as seen in the names of many old cities, [2] such as Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Ancient dams were built in Mesopotamia and the Middle East for water control. The earliest known dam is the Jawa Dam in Jordan, dating to 3,000 BC. Egyptians also built dams ...
Andrew Lockington (born 1974), Canadian film score composer David Lockington (born 1956), music director of the Grand Rapids Symphony William Neale Lockington (1840-1902), English zoologist
The massive west abutment of the Old Nine-mile Aqueduct over the Great Miami River is still present approximately 400 ft (120 m) upstream of the Taylorsville Dam east of Vandalia (Montgomery County). The abutment terminates a fairly intact canal segment that extends at least 5 mi (8.0 km) north to Tipp City.
Managed by the Jharkhand Urban Infrastructure Development Company (JUIDCO), the Dhurwa Dam has a reservoir capacity of about 1.37 km 3, crucial for domestic use and irrigation. The dam not only plays a vital role in the local economy but also attracts tourists for its scenic beauty and recreational opportunities.