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This company funded dam construction on the Broad River which produced the lake after which the town is named. [3] The dam took two years to build and Lake Lure was finally impounded and filled by 1927. [4] At ordinary water levels, Lake Lure covers approximately 720 acres (2.9 km 2) and has a shoreline of approximately 27 miles (43 km). [4]
Stroud owned them and the power the dam generated until 1965. In 1963, the North Carolina General Assembly enacted the legislation that authorized the Town of Lake Lure to issue revenue bonds for the purpose of acquiring the assets from Stroud. The dam, power company, and real estate of Lake Lure were acquired by the Town of Lake Lure in 1965. [3]
This is an incomplete list of dams starting at Lake Lure and moving downstream North Carolina. Lake Lure; Cliffside Steam Station (Duke Energy) on the Border of Rutherford and Cleveland Counties. South Carolina. Gaston Shoals Dam ; Cherokee Falls; Ninety Nine Islands Dam adjacent to the abandoned Cherokee Nuclear Power Plant; Dam and canal at ...
On Lake Lure, the water relocated the marina docks and all the boats that had been moored on them. Sunday, the boats seemed to sit on top of a spilled box of toothpicks, some of the remains of the ...
At 9 a.m. Friday, town officials notified the Rutherford County Emergency Management office about the pending dam failure, saying water from the lake was expected to top the dam before 10 a.m.
The Lake Lure Dam, which was feared doomed to collapse on Friday, is stable and emergency repairs are set to begin. At the peak of Helene’s rains, a warning went out that the Lake Lure Dam was ...
Badin Lake; Bass Lake (Holly Springs, North Carolina) Bass Lake (Watauga County, North Carolina) Beaver Lake (North Carolina) Belews Lake; Bent Creek (North Carolina) Blewett Falls Lake; Buckhorn Reservoir
LAKE LURE, N.C. – Authorities went house-to-house urging people below the dam of a popular lake in the western North Carolina mountains to evacuate Friday after officials warned the barrier ...