Everything about Bluestone Lake totally explained
Bluestone Lake, located on the
New River near
Hinton in Southern
West Virginia, was authorized by Presidential
Executive Order in
1935 and approved by the
U.S. Congress in the Flood Control Acts of
1936 and
1938. Construction of the project was begun in early
1941, suspended in
1942 because of
World War II, resumed in
1946, and completed for operational purposes in
1949. Bluestone Lake is the third largest
lake in West Virginia.
Bluestone
Dam, of
concrete construction, is
165 feet (50 m) high and
2,048 feet (624 m) feet long. The lake regulates the runoff of a drainage area of
4,565 square miles (11,823 km²). During periods of low and normal flows of the New River, the elevation of the lake varies approximately four feet, with a minimum pool
9.5 miles (15.3 km) in length and an area of
1,800 acres (7 km²). The remaining capacity is reserved for the impoundment of flood flows.
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