...generation was soon added to many of the dams along the Salt and Verde Rivers. In 1944, the Phelps Dodge Mining Company paid to have Horseshoe Dam built to assure...
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...of one of the sand ridges left by the retreating glacier. Modern geological testing has proved that the majority of the lake’s water comes from springs bubbling from the underlying...
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...The summer pool water level is 552 feet above sea level; winter pool level is lowered to 525 feet, reducing the lake’s surface acreage by 56 percent. If sun and...
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...dining room serves multi-course meals and there is a poolside snack bar and cocktail lounge. The resort has an exercise room, hot tubs, saunas, a pool and a gift shop,...
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...established. After failing to obtain government assistance, the men got to work and dug a channel at the other end of the lake to connect it directly to Lake Michigan,...
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The Seven Rila Lakes are Bulgaria’s most visited lakes. These glacial lakes in the mountains hold a natural scenic spot in Rila National Park, complete with a chair lift to...
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...shoreline; instead, Lake Wingra is surrounded by two parks, the campus of Edgewood College and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum. The combined public lands offer a variety of ways to...
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...passion, the lake frequently hosts angling competitions. Arizona Game and Fish Department stocks Apache Lake with walleye, largemouth and smallmouth bass, redear sunfish, bluegill, channel and flathead catfish, carp, and...
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...store, snack bar, recreation center, coin laundry, playground, two swimming pools, Jacuzzi, RV dump station, children’s spray-park, and a large number of campsites are available. No sailing, sail boarding, swimming...
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...al-Haytham to control the flooding of the Nile. When al-Haytham realized the impossibility of the task, he wisely feigned madness until the Caliph died. A dam was finally completed in...
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