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Located at river mile 187.4, the lock and dam was authorized by the 1930 and 1935 Rivers and Harbors Acts to facilitate commercial navigation on the upper reaches of the Savannah River. The structure was completed in 1937. The last commercial shipping to use the lock ceased in 1979 and the structure and upstream channel fell into disuse. [1]
Richard B. Russell Dam is a concrete-gravity and embankment dam located on the Savannah River at the border of South Carolina and Georgia, creating Richard B. Russell Lake. The dam was built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers between 1974 and 1985 for the purposes of flood control , hydroelectricity , recreation , additional stream flow ...
Pages in category "Dams on the Savannah River" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... New Savannah Bluff Lock and Dam; R. Richard B. Russell Dam
1979e (Richard A. Warner, David Babson, Jenalee Muse, and Jeanne Metropol). Savannah District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Contract DACW 21-79-M-0631 Final Report. A Reassessment of Late Archaic Settlement and Subsistence Along the Upper Savannah River Valley: A View from the Richard B. Russell Reservoir. 1987 (Michael L. Alterman).
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The dam created the 71,000-acre (29,000 ha) Lake Strom Thurmond which stretches 29.4 miles (47.3 km) up the Savannah River and 17 miles (27 km) up the Little River. The dam is 239.5 miles (385.4 km) upstream of the Savannah's mouth and combines with the Hartwell Dam (1962) and the Richard B. Russell Dam (1985) in order to form over 120 miles ...
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