Lake Murray Dam - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Lake Murray Dam - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Saluda DamFederal Writers Project. South Carolina: A Guide To The Palmetto State. Volume 5 of American Guide. Somerset Publishers, Inc., 1941. p. 377. or Saluda River Dam,"Lexington County." The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to the Counties of South Carolina. Walter Edgar, ed. University of South Carolina Press, 2012. officially the Dreher Shoals Dam,Cathy Dreher. "Lake Murray Dam becomes Dreher Shoals Dam." Columbia Star. 11 February 2005. Retrieved 20 July 2016. commonly referred to as the Lake Murray Dam,"Lake Facts and Conditions" at Capital City Lake Murray Country tourism website. Retrieved 20 July 2016.Sherman Carmichael. Strange South Carolina. Arcadia Publishing, 2015. is an earthen embankment dam located approximately 10 miles (15 km) west of Columbia, South Carolina on the Saluda River. Construction on the dam began in 1927 and was completed in 1930. The purpose of the dam is flood control, hydroelectricity, recreation and water supply. At the time of its completion, the Saluda Dam was the world's largest earthen dam, creating the world's largest man-made lake, Lake Murray. In 2005, construction on a . tall roller-compacted concrete (RCC) dam was completed at the toe of the original dam in order to mitigate an earthquake-caused dam failure. Read more on Wikipedia
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