Island Creek Reservoir
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| Coordinates | 36 ° 32 '43 " N , 78 ° 27' 32" W | ||||
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| Altitude (at congestion destination ) | 79 m | ||||
| Water surface | 68 ha | ||||
| The immediately adjacent reservoir down the valley is 13 m higher. | |||||
The Island Creek Reservoir is a small reservoir on the border of the US states of North Carolina and Virginia . The lake is fed by Island Creek and other small streams and has an area of approximately 0.68 km².
The Island Creek Dam was built in the early 1950s as part of the construction of the John H. Kerr Dam on the Roanoke River . Since the United States Army Corps of Engineers did not agree on a transfer fee with the landowners and the upper Iceland Creek a tungsten was -Bergwerk, had a dam to be built around the valley from flooding by the far greater Kerr Lake to protect. The small Island Creek Reservoir was created as a compromise, its normal water level is around 79 m above sea level and thus around 13 m below the normal level of the adjacent Kerr Lake. To maintain the lake level, water must be continually pumped from the Island Creek Reservoir up into the John H. Kerr Reservoir.
The main part of the lake is in Mecklenburg County, Virginia , the rest south of the state line in North Carolina is shared by Granville and Vance Counties .