Dossier #844 · GRanD 7311
Elk City Lake
🇺🇸United States · Elk River River · Mississippi Basin · near Independence
Built 1966 · Dam · data quality: Fair
Water supplyFlood control ★RecreationOther
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 33 m
- Crest length
- 1,475 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 1 km³
- Reservoir area
- 13 km²
- Average depth
- 81 m
- Catchment
- 1,686 km²
- Avg discharge
- 14,257 L/s
- Elevation
- 241 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 233.3 %
Notes
Cap_min from Lakes polygon; dam is primarily for flood control so polygon may not reflect full volume; average depth still greater than dam height even when using reported area (larger than polygon area)
Built 1966
Provenance
Record 844 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 37.2758, -95.7844.