Английская Википедия:Burnsville Lake

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Шаблон:Infobox body of water Burnsville Lake is both a recreational and flood control reservoir on Little Kanawha River located southeast of Burnsville in Braxton County, West Virginia. Burnsville Lake was authorized by the U.S. Congress in the Flood Control Act of 1938.

Construction of the Burnsville Lake project was begun in the summer of 1972 and the dam was completed in September 1976. The lake project controls the runoff from a drainage area of 165 square miles (427 km²). The dam is a rock-fill embankment dam rising Шаблон:Convert above the streambed. Top elevation is Шаблон:Convert above sea level, and the crest length is Шаблон:Convert. A gated spillway is located in the left abutment. The outlet works are located in the spillway section. The minimum pool is maintained at elevation Шаблон:Convert with a surface area of Шаблон:Convert. The summer pool is at elevation Шаблон:Convert and has a surface area of Шаблон:Convert. The flood control pool is at elevation Шаблон:Convert with a surface area of Шаблон:Convert.

Many people in Burnsville and surrounding communities opposed the building of the dam since the back waters would flood areas currently occupied and locations of ancestral homes. Cemeteries had to be moved and residents had to relocate. When the dam was built, there was no recreation area for local residents instead residents of Burnsville had to travel to Bulltown.

Файл:Burnsville Dam.jpg Burnsville Dam on the Little Kanawha River in 2004.

Файл:Falls Mill (Burnsville Lake).jpg Falls Mill area, the upstream end of Burnsville Lake at its normal pool elevation.

References

• Data furnished by the Department of the Army.

See also

• Battle of Bulltown, a Civil War skirmish near the upstream end of the lake

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