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The Youghiogheny River (/ j ɒ k ə ˈ ɡ eɪ n i / yok-ə-GAY-nee [6]), or the Yough (/ ˈ j ɒ k / YOK) for short, is a 134-mile-long (216 km) [2] tributary of the Monongahela River in West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.
The lake is a result of the Youghiogheny Hydroelectric Company hydroelectric project on Deep Creek in the 1920s. Deep Creek Dam, located about 8 miles (13 km) north of Oakland, Maryland, consists of an earth and rock wall dam across a tributary of the Youghiogheny River. Construction of the dam began in 1923 and was completed in 1925.
The Youghiogheny Dam is an earthen structure, 184 feet (56 m) high and 1,610 feet (490 m) long at its crest, that is owned and operated by the United States Army Corps of Engineers. [ 4 ] The reservoir's normal surface area is approximately 4.4 square miles (11 km 2 ), and it has a maximum capacity of 300,000 acre-feet (370,000,000 m 3 ...
Aug. 24—Jurors in a coroner's inquest examining an August 2022 rafting death on the Youghiogheny River in Ohiopyle recommended drastic changes Thursday in hopes of preventing future fatalities.
Youghiogheny River • average: 70.03 cu ft/s (1.983 m 3 /s) at mouth with Youghiogheny River [5] Basin features; Progression: Youghiogheny River → Monongahela River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of Mexico: River system: Monongahela River: Tributaries • left: Irishtown Run Gist Run • right: Glade Run Limestone Run Tucker ...
Jim Run rises about 1.5 miles east-northeast of Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania, [2] and then flows west to join the Youghiogheny River about 1 mile northeast of Ohiopyle. [ 3 ] Watershed
On Friday, Beitzel said he had his own "numerous reasons" to recently allocate $4.7 million in DNR's capital budget for proposed trails along protected sections of the Youghiogheny River in ...
Youghiogheny River • average: 3.73 cu ft/s (0.106 m 3 /s) at mouth with Youghiogheny River [5] Basin features; Progression: generally south [4] River system: Monongahela River: Tributaries • left: unnamed tributaries • right: unnamed tributaries: Bridges: Gillespie Road, Davis Road, Banning Road, Rimel Road, School Road