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Dam [1] Height Year removed Location Watercourse Watershed Notes Appalachian Lake Dam 15 ft (4.6 m) 2019 Preston County: Fike Run: Cheat River [2] National Inventory of Dams ID WV07729. Brumfield Dam (Tyler Farm Pond Dam) 2019 Salt Rock
The Lost River is a 31.1-mile-long (50.1 km) [2] river in the Appalachian Mountains of Hardy County in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle region. The Lost River is geologically the same river as the Cacapon River: It flows into an underground channel northeast of McCauley along West Virginia Route 259 at "the Sinks" and reappears near Wardensville as the Cacapon.
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in West Virginia. All major dams are linked below. 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 ).
Lost River State Park is a state park located in Hardy County, West Virginia near the community of Mathias. The park encompasses 3,712 acres (15.02 km 2) managed by the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources. Despite the name of the park, it does not abut the Lost River; it lies about 2.3 miles (3.7 km) west of the river.
Lost River is an unincorporated community on the Lost River in eastern Hardy County, West Virginia, United States. Lost River lies along West Virginia Route 259 . Historic site
Opekiska Lock and Dam is a navigational lock and gated dam on the Monongahela River at Lowsville, West Virginia. It is part of a series of dams that canalizes the Monongahela to a depth of at least 9 feet (2.7 m) for its entire length from Fairmont , West Virginia to Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania .
Unlike the dam, which is federally owned and managed, Millerton Courthouse is located within a state park.According to San Joaquin Sector Superintendent Kent Gresham, cost estimates to repair the ...
Construction of the lake was completed in 1981, [3] and resulted in the flooding of the community of Shaw, West Virginia and the realignment of West Virginia Route 46. [4] The dam, rolled earth and rock fill, is 296 feet (90 m) high, has a crest length of 2,130 feet (650 m) and contains 10 million cubic yards (7.6 × 10 ^ 6 m 3) of material ...