Dossier #27799
POTOMAC RIVER DAM #4
🇺🇸United States · POTOMAC RIVER River · near WILLIAMSPORT, MD
Built 1869 · Dam · data quality: Fair
Hydroelectricity ★
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 6 m
- Crest length
- 218 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 12.3 MCM
- Reservoir area
- 0.8 km²
- Average depth
- 15.6 m
- Catchment
- 15,383 km²
- Avg discharge
- 181,232 L/s
- Elevation
- 103 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 0.2 %
Notes
Built 1869
Provenance
Record 27799 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GOODD-NID, year via NID. Coordinates are river-snapped: 39.4943, -77.8272.