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Lake Lanier (officially Lake Sidney Lanier) is a reservoir in the northern portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. It was created by the completion of Buford Dam on the Chattahoochee River in 1956, and is also fed by the waters of the Chestatee River. The lake encompasses 38,000 acres (15,000 ha) or 59 sq mi (150 km 2) of water, and 692 mi (1,114 ...
Buford Dam. / 34.16028°N 84.07389°W / 34.16028; -84.07389. Buford Dam is a dam in Buford, Georgia which is located at the southern end of Lake Lanier, [ 4] a reservoir formed by the construction of the dam in 1956. The dam itself is managed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers .
Oscarville is supposedly one of multiple "drowned towns" beneath Lake Lanier. [11] Local legend alleges Lake Lanier to be haunted. [12] One commonly claimed reason for the supposed haunting is the high number of drowning deaths, [3] with over 500 deaths between the lake's formation and 2021. [5] 200 deaths occurred between 1994 and 2020. [13]
History of Lake Lanier Well before Lake Lanier was formed, the land it was built on was a bustling community called Oscarville, which formed in the late 1800s during the Reconstruction era.
Summerour Mound site. The Summerour Mound site ( 9FO16) is an archaeological site located in Forsyth County, Georgia. It was formerly on a floodplain of the west bank of the Chattahoochee River in northern Georgia. It is now flooded under the Buford Reservoir, also known as Lake Lanier . This mound site, previously unreported, was discovered ...
GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Federal officials are pausing a plan that could lead to new names for Georgia’s Lake Lanier The post Federal officials pause plan to rename Georgia’s Lake Lanier ...
Tri-state water dispute. Chattahoochee River in Norcross, Georgia, downstream from Lake Lanier and Buford Dam. The tri-state water dispute is a 21st-century water-use conflict among the U.S. states of Georgia, Alabama, and Florida over flows in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin and the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa River Basin.
Levels in Lake Lanier have gone up and down at times in its history, but the lake’s elevation has remained fairly steady so far this year, data from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers shows.