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Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Delaware. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3 ), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3 ).
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The harvested stone was used to build the Delaware Breakwater [11]) It is 0.2 miles (0.32 km) miles across [12] and covers 11 acres (4.5 ha). The reservoir supplied the Wilmington and Suburban Water Comopany, which was founded in 1933 and has since absorbed into Suez Water .
The reservoir first impounded the water of Old Mill Stream and Red Clay Creek in 1932, with a dam built by the city of Wilmington, Delaware, for municipal drinking water. It has a water surface of 187 acres (76 ha), a maximum capacity of 11,000 acre-feet (14,000,000 m 3 ), and a normal capacity of 6,300 acre-feet (7,800,000 m 3 ). [ 1 ]
Dam [1] Height Year removed Location Watercourse Watershed Notes West Street Dam (Brandywine Dam No. 1) 3 ft (0.91 m) 2019 Wilmington: Brandywine Creek: Christina River: Water main encasement owned by the City of Wilmington.
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The Delaware Water Gap is a water gap on the border of the U.S. states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania where the Delaware River cuts through a large ridge of the Appalachian Mountains. [ 2 ] The gap makes up the southern portion of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area , which is used primarily for recreational purposes, such as ...
The Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area came about as a result of the failure of a controversial plan to build a dam on the Delaware River at Tocks Island, just north of the Delaware Water Gap to control water levels for flood control and hydroelectric power generation. The dam would have created a 37-mile (60 km) lake in the center of ...