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Dossier #3023 · GRanD 1757

Western Branch Dam

🇺🇸United States · Nansemond River

Built 1921 · Dam · data quality: Fair

Water supplyRecreation
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.