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Dossier #172 · GRanD 1890

Pinopolis West Dam

🇺🇸United States · Cooper River River

Built 1942 · Dam · data quality: Good

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Reservoir outline · simplified

Specifications

Height
42 m
Crest length
3,505 m
Reservoir capacity
1.4 km³
Reservoir area
220.8 km²
Average depth
6.2 m
Catchment
387 km²
Avg discharge
4,921 L/s
Elevation
20 masl
Degree of regulation
882.3 %

Notes

Lake Moultrie is fed by the Lake Marion diversion canal, which artifically re-reroutes the Cooper river basin

Built 1942

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Provenance

Record 172 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 33.2409, -79.9990.