Long Branch Dam

Long Branch Dam is a dam in Macon County in northern Missouri, about eighty miles north of Columbia, Missouri.

The dam is a project of the United States Army Corps of Engineers to provide flood control, water storage, wildlife conservation, and recreation. Completed in 1978, the 71-foot-high earthen dam impounds the water of the East Fork of the Little Chariton River.[1]

Long Branch Lake is the reservoir created by the dam, with about 24 miles of shoreline and a flood-control capacity of 98,000 acre-feet. In addition to the adjacent state-run Long Branch State Park with three separate units,[2] the dam has a visitor's center at its southern end, and the Atlanta State Wildlife Area at its northern end.

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-09-21. Retrieved 2014-09-24.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. http://mostateparks.com/park/long-branch-state-park

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