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The United States Army Corps of Engineers tested all 12 spillway gates at the Lake Hartwell hydropower dam located at 5625 Anderson Hwy at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, March 13.
Hartwell Dam is a concrete and embankment dam located on the Savannah River at the border of South Carolina and Georgia, creating Lake Hartwell. The dam was built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers between 1955 and 1962 for the purposes of flood control, hydropower and navigation. The concrete and earthen structure spans 15,840 feet (4,828 m).
1989 was the first year the lake hit a level 3, dropping to its lowest level during the drought that year. 2008 was the second time the lake hit a level 3. In December 2008, due to severe drought in the southeastern United States, the lake dropped to more than 22 feet (6.7 m) below its normal water level.
The entire Thurmond "project" contains 151,000 acres (611 km 2) of land and water. J. Strom Thurmond Lake and Dam is the first Corps of Engineers project to be built in the Savannah River Basin. Hartwell Lake and Dam the second project built in the basin was completed in 1963, and a third project, Richard B. Russell Lake and Dam was completed ...
Hartwell Lake was built between 1955 and 1963. The main purposes that the lake serves are flood risk management, water quality, water supply, hydropower production, wildlife protection, and recreation. [12] The Army Corps of Engineers’ military engineers are responsible for the construction and maintenance of the southern Louisiana levee ...
An Athens, Georgia, man died from an accidental drowning at Lake Hartwell over the weekend. Levi Magana Nino, a 47-year-old male from Athens, Georgia, was at the Elrod Ferry Recreation Area on ...
The dam was built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers between 1946 and 1954 for the purposes of flood control, hydroelectricity and downstream navigation. The concrete structure of the dam spans 1,096 feet (334 m) and rises 204 feet (62 m) above the riverbed, housing a power plant with an installed 380 MW capacity.
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