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POTOMAC CREEK DAM #1

🇺🇸United States · POTOMAC CREEK River

Built 1970 · Dam · data quality: Fair

Water supplyFlood control
Reservoir outline · simplified

Specifications

Height
29 m
Crest length
285 m
Reservoir capacity
14.1 MCM
Reservoir area
0.3 km²
Average depth
46.5 m
Catchment
77 km²
Avg discharge
1,066 L/s
Elevation
70 masl
Degree of regulation
41.9 %

Notes

Built 1970

Provenance

Record 11441 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GOODD-NID, year via NID. Coordinates are river-snapped: 38.3956, -77.4813.