5 x vertical Francis turbines (3 @ 32.5 MW, 1 @ 42.3 MW, 1 @ 67.5 MW)
Installed capacity
207 MW
Annual generation
245,000,000 kWh
The Saluda Dam[1] or Saluda River Dam,[2] officially the Dreher Shoals Dam,[1][3] commonly referred to as the Lake Murray Dam,[4][5] is an earthen embankment dam located approximately 10 miles (15 km) west of Columbia, South Carolina on the Saluda River. Construction on the dam began in 1927 and was completed in 1930. The purpose of the dam is flood control, hydroelectricity, recreation and water supply. At the time of its completion, the Saluda Dam was the world's largest earthen dam, creating the world's largest man-made lake, Lake Murray. In 2005, construction on a 213 ft (65 m). tall roller-compacted concrete (RCC) dam was completed at the toe of the original dam in order to mitigate an earthquake-caused dam failure.
South Carolina Highway 6 crosses over the dam and is used as a fast connection between the towns of Lexington and Irmo. The yearly football game between rival Lexington High School and Irmo High School is often called "The Battle of the Dam".
^ abFederal Writers Project. South Carolina: A Guide To The Palmetto State. Volume 5 of American Guide. Somerset Publishers, Inc., 1941. p. 377. ISBN 9780403021895
^"Lexington County." The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to the Counties of South Carolina. Walter Edgar, ed. University of South Carolina Press, 2012. ISBN 9781611171518
^Cathy Dreher. "Lake Murray Dam becomes Dreher Shoals Dam." Columbia Star. 11 February 2005. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
^"Lake Facts and Conditions"[permanent dead link] at Capital City Lake Murray Country tourism website. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
^Sherman Carmichael. Strange South Carolina. Arcadia Publishing, 2015. ISBN 9781625856043
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