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Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Pennsylvania. 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 ).
Bodies of water of Pennsylvania by county (69 C) B. Bays of Pennsylvania (1 P) C. Canals in Pennsylvania (2 C, 28 P) L. Lakes of Pennsylvania (3 C, 30 P) R.
Bodies of water of York County, Pennsylvania (1 C, 1 P) This page was last edited on 4 August 2017, at 21:59 (UTC). Text is ...
The slope of the water table is known as the “hydraulic gradient”, which depends on the rate at which water is added to and removed from the aquifer and the permeability of the material. The water table does not always mimic the topography due to variations in the underlying geological structure (e.g., folded, faulted, fractured bedrock).
Pennsylvania is one of 13 original colonies that share a border with Canada. Pennsylvania is 180 miles (290 km) north to south and 310 miles (500 km) east to west. The total land area is 44,817 square miles (116,080 km 2)—739,200 acres (2,991 km 2) of which are bodies of water. It is the 33rd largest state in the United States.
The Pennsylvania-American Water Company has a facility on the reservoir capable of processing 16 million gallons of water per day, but it normally processes around 9 million gallons. [ 11 ] [ 8 ] As of 2010, Pikes Creek Reservoir serves a total of 70,000 customers in 14 municipalities, from Shickshinny to Wilkes-Barre.
This lake was formed in 1944 by the damming of the Youghiogheny River upstream from Confluence, Pennsylvania. [3]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.
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