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Long Branch Dam is a dam in Macon County in northern Missouri, about 80 miles (130 km) 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 (22 m) high earthen dam impounds the water of the East Fork of the Little Chariton River.[2]

Long Branch Lake is the reservoir created by the dam, with about 24 miles (39 km) of shoreline and a flood-control capacity of 98,000 acre-feet (121,000,000 m3). In addition to the adjacent state-run Long Branch State Park with three separate units,[3] the dam has a visitor's center at its southern end, and the Atlanta State Wildlife Area at its northern end.

References

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Long Branch Dam
  2. ^ "Long Branch Lake". Archived from the original on 2010-09-21. Retrieved 2014-09-24.
  3. ^ "Long Branch State Park". 10 December 2010.
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