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Dossier #779 · GRanD 1639

Lake Decatur Dam

🇺🇸United States · Sangamon River River

Built 1922 · Dam · data quality: Good

Water supplyRecreation
Reservoir outline · simplified

Specifications

Height
10 m
Crest length
527 m
Reservoir capacity
71 MCM
Reservoir area
10.9 km²
Average depth
6.5 m
Catchment
2,365 km²
Avg discharge
23,481 L/s
Elevation
186 masl
Degree of regulation
9.6 %

Notes

Built 1922

Provenance

Record 779 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 39.8241, -88.9550.