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Smith Mountain Lake is a large reservoir in the Roanoke Region of Virginia, [ 3] United States, located southeast of the City of Roanoke and southwest of Lynchburg. The lake was created in 1963 by the Smith Mountain Dam impounding the Roanoke River. The majority of the south shore of the lake lies in Franklin County while a small portion ...
Installed capacity. 560 MW (750,000 hp) Smith Mountain Dam is a concrete arch dam located on the Roanoke River in Virginia, creating Smith Mountain Lake. The dam was built by Appalachian Power (a division of American Electric Power) between 1960 and 1963 for the purposes of pumped-storage hydroelectricity. The dam created Smith Mountain Lake as ...
50 acres (20 ha) Max. depth. 110 ft (33.5 m) Surface elevation. 3,875 ft (1,181 m) Mountain Lake is a freshwater lake located in Giles County near Newport, Virginia in the United States. Along with Lake Drummond in the Great Dismal Swamp, it is one of only two natural lakes in Virginia.
Leesville Lake is a reservoir in Virginia used for hydroelectric power generation in conjunction with Smith Mountain Lake as a pump storage project. It is located southeast of Roanoke, and southwest of Lynchburg . Smaller and lower than Smith Mountain Lake, Leesville Lake covers 3,270 acres (13.2 km 2) and contains 94,900 acre-feet (117,100,000 ...
Moneta, Virginia. / 37.18139°N 79.61722°W / 37.18139; -79.61722. Moneta is a census-designated place (CDP) in southern Bedford County, Virginia, United States. The community is located along Route 122 between the towns of Bedford and Rocky Mount. It is part of the Lynchburg Metropolitan Statistical Area .
The Roanoke River is also known as the Staunton River for 80 miles between Smith Mountain Lake and convergence with the Dan River at Kerr Lake . The river is impounded in six locations. The first is the Niagara Dam just south of the City of Roanoke in Roanoke County adjacent to the town of Vinton.
Westlake Corner, Virginia. / 37.13306°N 79.67889°W / 37.13306; -79.67889. Westlake Corner is a census-designated place in Franklin County, Virginia, United States. The population was 1,553 at the 2020 census [3] up fro 976 at the 2010 census. [4] It is part of the Roanoke Metropolitan Statistical Area .
Smith Mountain (Blue Ridge Mountains) Coordinates: Smith Mountain is a mountain summit located in Bedford County, Virginia and Pittsylvania County, Virginia. [1] Part of the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, it is home to the Smith Mountain Dam. [2]