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Lake Hemet is a water storage reservoir located in the San Jacinto Mountains in Mountain Center, Riverside County, California, [1] with a capacity of 14,000 acre-feet (17,000,000 m 3) [2] of water. It was created in 1895 with the construction of Lake Hemet Dam . [ 3 ]
The name "Lake Moeris" is derived from the Greek translation (Μοῖρῐς λίμνη Limne Moeris) of the Egyptian place-name mr-wr (lit. "Great Canal"). [7] This name is likely a reference to the Bahr Yussef, and as the pharaoh responsible for its construction Amenemhat III was referred to by the Greeks as "King Moeris".
Lake Merritt is a lake located in a large tidal lagoon basin in the center of Oakland, California, just east of Downtown. It is named after Samuel Merritt, Oakland's mayor in 1867–1869, who had the lagoon dammed turning the varying tidal lagoon into a stable salt-water lake. It is surrounded by parkland and city neighborhoods.
Lake Mead receives the majority of its water from snow melt in the Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah Rocky Mountains. Inflows to the lake are largely moderated by the upstream Glen Canyon Dam, which is required to release around 8.23 million acre-feet (10,150,000 Ml) of water each year to Lake Mead under the Colorado River Compact. Releases from ...
The library can trace its history back to 1906, when members of the Hemet Woman's Club wanted a place to gather and read literature, so they opened a reading room on the second floor of a bank on the Bothin Block.
Lake Catherine is the smaller of the two lakes, sized at 1,940-acre (790 ha). The Lake Catherine State Park is located on the lake's shore. The lake was created in the 1920's with the building of Remmel Dam, a concrete-and-steel Ambursen-type buttressed dam. Remmel Dam was created to provide hydroelectricity, but the lake later developed into a ...
Hume Lake Christian Camps is a non-denominational, nonprofit [1] parachurch organization and is one of the largest operators of Christian camps and conference centers in the world. Hume operates year-round camps and conference centers at multiple locations with programing for youth, family, and adults and has hosted more than 1 million visitors.
Lake Pleasant is a hamlet in the town of Lake Pleasant in Hamilton County, New York, United States. It is the county seat of Hamilton County and includes the Hamilton County Courthouse Complex . The name is derived from a water body named Lake Pleasant near the community.