Lebanon Reservoir (Schuylkill County)

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Lebanon Reservoir
Christian E. Siegrist Dam
Location: Pine Grove Township in Schuylkill County in Pennsylvania (USA)
Tributaries: Evening Branch , Fishing Creek
Drain: Mill Creek
Lebanon Reservoir (Pennsylvania)
Lebanon reservoir
Coordinates 40 ° 32 '50 "  N , 76 ° 30' 0"  W Coordinates: 40 ° 32 '50 "  N , 76 ° 30' 0"  W.
Data on the structure
Lock type: Concrete dam wall
Construction time: 1993-1994
Height of the barrier structure : 38 m
Crown length: 200 m
Operator: City of Lebanon Water Authority
Data on the reservoir
Altitude (at congestion destination ) 209  m
Water surface 43 hectares
Reservoir length 1.8 km
Reservoir width 600 m
Storage space 4th 500 000  m³
Catchment area 38.6 km²

The Lebanon Reservoir is a small reservoir in Schylkill County, Pennsylvania . The lake is dammed by the Christian E. Siegrist Dam and serves to supply the city of Lebanon with water .

The reservoir

The reservoir is located between two ridges of the Appalachian Mountains , Sharp Mountain and Second Mountain . With normal congestion, the lake has an area of ​​almost 43 hectares and contains 4.5 million m³ of water. It is fed by two streams - the Evening Branch flows into the southwest and the Fishing Creek flows into the northeast. Mill Creek forms the natural drain of the Lebanon Reservoir .

The dam

In 1994 the Christian E. Siegrist Dam was completed. The concrete dam is 38 meters high and has a crown length of about 200 m. It replaced an earthfill dam built in the 1940s , the approximately 21 m high High Bridge Dam (the name came from a former railway bridge at this point). The new dam is opposite the old dam a little further downstream. As a result, the storage volume of the Lebanon reservoir has increased significantly.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Christian E Siegrist Dam, central Pennsylvania (English)
  2. Engineering solutions to environmental challenges: Thirteenth Annual USCOLD Lecture Series, page 18.
  3. www.lebcounty.org ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 339 kB) page 6 (English). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lebcounty.org