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• Bluestone Dam and Lake

  … River about three miles above the dam, provides lodging, camping, a restaurant, and recreational facilities. The Bluestone Dam celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1999 … to add hydroelectric capacity to the dam, in a partnership between Hinton …

• Sutton Dam and Lake

  … augmentation, and recreation. Planning for Sutton Dam was suspended in 1952 because of … from its nearby neighbor, "Burnsville Dam":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles … of earthen and concrete composition. Sutton Dam has tamed the floods that …

• Burnsville Dam

  … at Parkersburg. The earthen and concrete dam is 90 feet high and … per second is maintained from the dam’s five sluice gates and … . The pastoral setting at Burnsville Dam and Lake leads to high … include Riffle Run near the dam, and "Bulltown":http …

• Tygart Dam and Lake

  … Taylor-Barbour county line. The dam was built during the Great … River. When construction began, Tygart Dam’s dual purposes were to … /1350 provided workers to the dam project, which employed as many … the most concrete in any dam east of the Mississippi. The …

• Jennings Randolph Lake and Dam

  Jennings Randolph Lake and Dam is located on the "North Branch& … at a cost of $175 million, the dam is 296 feet high with a … the largest rock-filled, rolled-earth dams east of the Mississippi. Its … at the base of the dam. The dam also helps to control …

• Locks and Dams

  … to be completely canalized with wicket dams. During the 1930s, three high-lift … government built a fifth lock and dam near Burning Springs, providing slackwater navigation … the upper Monongahela with locks and dams to stimulate economic growth. After the …

• Guyandotte River

  … the system, but the poorly constructed dams required expensive repairs after every flood … important transportation artery. Without locks and dams, large steamboats couldn’t navigate … construction of a flood-control dam and reservoir near Justice. Dedicated …

• Hardy County

  … people’s lives. During that flood the river reached 19.99 feet, more than nine feet above flood stage. A series of flood prevention dams were built on the South Fork starting in the 1960s, and then on the Lost River watershed in the 1990s. In the mid- …

• Appalachian Power Company

  … 1910 when a group of entrepreneurs decided that "hydroelectric dams":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/777 could be built … coal country of southern West Virginia. The company built two dams in Virginia and an 88,000-volt transmission line to …

• Hinton

  … architecture, including the "Star House":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/552. The construction of "Bluestone Dam":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/575 on the New River, completed in 1949, provided employment for many …

• History of West Virginia

  … and the state, built nine locks and dams, the first such facilities in Western Virginia. … was the construction of "locks and dams":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1428 … of the collapse of a coal company dam in which 125 people were killed …

• Big Sandy River

  … as Williamson, on the Tug Fork. Temporary splash dams were built on the Russell Fork of … that they could be floated out when the dams were dynamited and the waters released. The … In later years there were three locks and dams on the Big Sandy and one each …

• Birch River

  … Army Corps of Engineers":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/843 studied Birch during 1966–71 for a possible reservoir site. The proposed dam would have been built 1.3 miles above the mouth of the river and would have inundated 11.8 miles of stream …

• Bluestone River

  … ;Bluestone Lake":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/575. The dam is on New River just downstream from where Bluestone … "flood control":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2196 dam at Spanishburg, but it was never constructed. Most of …

• Bluestone State Park

  … ":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/575, created by the Bluestone Dam, which impounds the New River and the Bluestone. Bluestone State … boat rentals and there are public boat ramps. The lake and dam are run by the "U.S. Army Corps of …

• Stonewall Jackson Lake

  … , and water supply. The concrete gravity dam has an uncontrolled spillway and five sluices … of 95 feet above the stream. The dam became fully operational in 1988 and … although there are also trout in the dam tailwaters, and crappie, bluegill, and Kentucky …

• Stony River

  … the same time. Virginia Electric Power Company built the Mount Storm Dam near the headwaters of the Stony River in 1965. The … led to the establishment of a warm-water fishery. Below the dam, the heated effluent prevents the establishment of a cold-water …

• Summersville Lake State Park

  … wvencyclopedia.org/articles/843 normally names its dams for the nearest community, which in … . But after brief consideration of ‘‘Gad Dam,’’ the name Summersville was chosen instead. … from the highway that crosses the dam. Water releases during the fall lake …

• Taylor County

  … the two state parks. The "U.S. Army Corps of Engineers":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/843 completed the Tygart Dam in 1938 to provide flood protection for the region. The resulting 1,740-acre lake is a popular recreation area. Valley …

• Buffalo Creek Flood

  … been concerned about whether the dams posed a danger to them. … /1605 had concluded that the dams might be susceptible to washouts … construction of the coal waste dams. The Governor’s Ad Hoc … to pass new laws regulating dam construction and maintenance. <p …

• Burnsville

  … 5, just west of "Burnsville Lake":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/731. The town flooded many times before the completion of the dam in 1978. The town's population peaked at 1,088 in 1920. Burnsville's population in 2020 was 401.

• Hydroelectricity

  … water captured upstream at the dam. "Construction of the three- … the work progressed. The picturesque dam and lake are visible from … power station on the Summersville Dam on "Gauley River" … and "R. D. Bailey Dam and Lake":https://www …

• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

  … ten local protection projects. The flood-control dams include those at Tygart Lake, Bluestone … of Engineers operates 13 "locks and dam":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … at Point Pleasant and the 1972 coal dam failure at Buffalo Creek in Logan …

• Waterpower

  … plant was restored and restarted in 2011. Some dams were built specifically for the generation of electricity, including dams at Cheat Lake and at Hawks Nest on New River. In other cases, dams built primarily for navigation or flood control were …

• John George Jackson

  … Bank at Clarksburg and in 1817 became the president and chief stockholder of the Monongahela Navigation Company, which constructed locks and dams on the West Fork River. In 1800, Jackson married Mary Payne, a sister of Dolley Madison. Two years after …