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East Branch Clarion River Lake, or East Branch Lake is a reservoir at Elk State Park in Elk County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It was constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers by damming the East Branch of the Clarion River. Construction of the rolled earth, impervious core dam was authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1944.
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The project site was to have been 4.6 miles (7.4 km) east of Verona, Virginia, about 9 miles (14 km) from Staunton. The majority of the dam was to be earthfill, with a 97-foot (30 m) high concrete gravity overflow section impounding a 4,750-acre (1,920 ha) 143,000-acre-foot (0.176 km 3) reservoir. Impact on farming was judged to be "relatively ...
The dam is 7.3 miles (11.7 km) upstream from the confluence of the East and West branches of the Clarion River. It was constructed in 1952 for $9 million and serves a 72.4 square miles (188 km 2) drainage area. It is estimated that East Branch Clarion River Lake has prevented $81 million in damage.
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The draft does not call for tearing down the dams now, but says it remains under consideration.
The East Branch Reservoir has a surface area of 525 acres (2.12 km 2), reaches a mean depth of 32 feet (9.8 m), and holds 5.2 billion US gal (20 million m 3) at full capacity. It drains a 75-square-mile (190 km 2 ) area that includes Bog Brook Reservoir .
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