Dossier #3023 · GRanD 1757
Western Branch Dam
🇺🇸United States · Nansemond River
Built 1921 · Dam · data quality: Fair
Water supply ★Recreation
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 10 m
- Crest length
- 640 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 18.6 MCM
- Reservoir area
- 5.8 km²
- Average depth
- 3.2 m
- Catchment
- 181 km²
- Avg discharge
- 2,863 L/s
- Elevation
- 9 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 20.6 %
Notes
There may be some mismatch of data between Western Branch and Lake Prince dam which are part of the same reservoir complex
Built 1921
Provenance
Record 3023 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 36.8006, -76.5829.