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High Rock Lake is a reservoir located on the Yadkin River in central North Carolina in the counties of Davidson and Rowan.Built in 1926-27 by the Tallassee Power Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa), the lake is the northernmost of a series of four hydroelectric projects designed at the time to support the company’s Badin Works, a large aluminum ...
High Rock Lake is the second largest lake in North Carolina, [2] and is managed under federal license by Alcoa.The licensing process is years long and has traditionally been relicensed for 50 years at a time, with the latest contract expected to be signed in 2008. [3]
Abbotts Creek starts in Kernersville, NC in Forsyth County and flows into High Rock Lake near Lexington, NC in Davidson County just north of Hwy 47. The section of High Rock Lake that is officially Abbotts Creeks ends near the Hwy 8 causeway, in Southmont, NC. The median flow at Lexington ranges from 50 to 200 cubic feet per second. [7]
The lake has multiple crossings. One is the Bringle Ferry Bridge that bridges the river between High Rock (in Davidson County) and Pooletown (in Rowan County), and from which there are views of the High Rock Dam. The second crossing is the NC Hwy 49 Bridge at Tuckertown.
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The bridge that connects Lake Lure and Chimney Rock in Lake Lure, N.C. on Saturday, September 29, 2024. For a couple of days, the wreckage left the two communities as isolated as they were a ...
High Rock Lake, reservoir in North Carolina; High Rock Lake (Nevada) High Rock Mountain, Uwharrie Mountains, North Carolina; Other places.
High Rock Dam, built in 1927. Little Pee Dee River. There are 22,988 acres of lakes and 5,863 miles of watercourses in the basin. [4] Five major lakes exist within the watershed, all in North Carolina, including: W. Kerr Scott Reservoir; High Rock Lake; Tuckertown Reservoir; Badin Lake; Falls Reservoir