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Table Rock Lake is an artificial lake or reservoir in the Ozarks of southwestern Missouri and northwestern Arkansas in the United States. Designed, built and operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the lake is impounded by Table Rock Dam, which was constructed from 1954 to 1958 on the White River creating the lake.
The lake was created by the construction of the 2,543-foot-long (775 m) Bagnell Dam by the Union Electric Company of St. Louis, Missouri. The principal engineering firm was Stone and Webster. Construction began August 8, 1929, and was completed in April 1931; the lake reached spillway elevation on May 20, 1931.
The lake is 10th largest of Corps lakes in the district, but third in terms of shoreline. It has 5,000 acres (20 km 2) of public land and 175 miles (282 km) of shoreline. Smithville Dam was authorized in 1965. Construction began in 1972 with the dam being completed in 1977. Impoundment began in 1979.
Two of the four large tainter gates at Harry S. Truman Dam A map and brochure showing the shape and location of the lake. The Harry S. Truman Dam and Reservoir, also known as Truman Lake, is located in the state of Missouri, United States. It is located between Clinton and Warsaw, on the Osage River and extends south to Osceola.
Stockton Lake is a reservoir located in southeastern Cedar County, northeastern Dade County, and southwestern Polk County, Missouri. The lake ... construction was ...
The construction of Bagnell Dam was completed and Lake of the Ozarks was a full reservoir in less than two years. [10] The stock market crash of 1929, which precipitated the Great Depression, occurred just months after construction on Bagnell Dam began. The project employed thousands of laborers, providing a large economic boost to the rural ...
The lake is part of a series of lakes in the Osage River Basin designed and constructed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers for flood control. Construction began in 1957 and was complete in 1961 at a cost of $14,946,784. Storage of water began on October 29, 1961 and the multipurpose pool was reached on June 15, 1963.
The lake was created when Big River was dammed. [2] The Council Bluff Dam construction began in 1979 and was completed in 1981. [ 5 ] It was at the time the largest earthfill dam ever built by the USDA-Forest Service with an embankment height of 124 feet.