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The recent popularity of “wake boating” is increasing the rate of erosion of the Lake James shoreline. Lake Operations: Lake James was constructed, and is operated, for the purposes of hydroelectric power production. Over the past 100 years its operations have been modified to recognize the value of the lake for water supply, flood control ...
- P.O. Box 430, Nebo, 28761, NC
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Mar 25, 2019 · Joseph Ransdell, Louisiana’s senior U.S. senator at the time, called the Flood Control Act of 1928 the most important piece of water-related legislation “since the world began.”
Lake James Environmental Association is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization established in 1973 to protect Lake James and its watershed. Lake James and its Watershed-Facts and History. In 2018, LJEA released the State of the Watershed report. The report is the compilation and analysis of years of data from the watershed, which gives us a big ...
By the 1950s, Lake James was thought to be the only "fresh-water delivery route on an inland lake in the United States with a cottage-to-cottage delivery by speedboat." [34] Summer service was provided from June 1 through September 15 to lakefront properties with mailboxes at the end of their piers.
The barrier islands of Louisiana are eroding at an extreme rate. In places up to 100 feet of shoreline are disappearing every year. Though it has long been assumed that this erosion was due to the area's rapid rate of relative sea level rise, recent studies by the U.S. Geological Survey show that other coastal processes, such as the longshore redistribution of sediments, are responsible for ...
- Jefferey H. List
- 2003
Lake James Facts. Lake James is a man made reservoir in the mountains of Western North Carolina which straddles the border between Burke and McDowell Counties. The lake, with surface elevation of 1200 ft (366 m), lies behind a series of 4 earthen dams. It was created by Duke Power between 1916-1923 as a hydro-electric project.
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Nov 16, 2004 · Even the calmest of seas are constantly moving water, sand, and mud toward and away from the shore, and establishing new shorelines. Coastal changes have accelerated in the past century. Although sea level has been rising since the end of the last glaciation (nearly 11,000 years), the rate of sea-level rise has increased over the past 200 years ...
