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There is a society for the lake, founded by the citizens around it. FOLKS is the Friends Of Lake Keowee Society. It was established in 1993 to focus peoples attention on the importance of Lake Keowee and its economical and recreation affects on its surrounding areas. |
There is a society for the lake, founded by the citizens around it. FOLKS is the Friends Of Lake Keowee Society. It was established in 1993 to focus peoples attention on the importance of Lake Keowee and its economical and recreation affects on its surrounding areas. |
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FOLKS has a program that lets citizens adopt an island, which is called the Island Keeper Program. This is in place to keep islands clean, and make island sweeps to keep trash off of the islands. |
FOLKS has a program that lets citizens adopt an island, which is called the Island Keeper Program. This is in place to keep islands clean, and make island sweeps to keep trash off of the islands. Littering is a very large problem Lake Keowee has on the islands it has. Duke Energy will soon post signs all around lake access points for boats that will give day-use rules for the lake. |
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==External Links/References== |
==External Links/References== |
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| Location | Oconee / Pickens counties, South Carolina, USA |
| Coordinates | 34°48′00″N 82°53′12″W / 34.80000°N 82.88667°W |
| Type | Reservoir |
| Primary inflows | Keowee River, Little River |
| Primary outflows | Keowee River, Little River |
| Basin countries | United States |
| Surface area | 18,372 acres (74.35 km2) |
| Average depth | 52 ft |
| Max. depth | 297 ft |
| Settlements | Arial, Clemson, Anderson Dacusville, Easley, Liberty, Pickens, Salem, Seneca, Walhalla, and Westminster |
Lake Keowee
History
Lake Keowee is an artificial lake, created by the Duke Power Company in 1971. It was made to generate hydroelectric power to a large radius of the surrounding area. It was the lake made as part of Duke Energy’s Keowee-Toxaway Complex.
How It Was Made
Geography/Locations Around the Lake
The Lake is predominately located in Oconee, which is the most upper west county in the state of South Carolina, and it also extends somewhat into Pickens county, which is directly east and adjacent to Oconee county.
Campgrounds: There is the 1,000 acre Keowee-Toxaway State Park. Created in partnership of Duke Energy and South Carolina. Its separated into three different parks, 155-acre Mile Creek Park, 40-acre South Cove Park, 44-acre High Falls Park. There is another 373 acres, which is called Eastotoe Park, which is monitored by the SCDNR for management as a natural area. Duke Energy also has created six additional boat access slips.
Local Major Cities and distances away: Charleston, SC: 250; Columbia, SC: 136; Florence, SC: 217; Greenville, SC: 35; Charlotte, NC: 127; Raleigh, NC: 269; Atlanta, GA: 145; Augusta, GA: 135; Savannah, GA: 247
Education:
Local Elementary schools: Blue Ridge Elementary, Fair-Oak Elementary, James M Brown, Keowee Elementary, North Side Elementary, Oakway Intermediate, Orchard Park Elementary, Ravenel Elementary, Tamassee-Salem Elementary, Walhalla Elementary, Westminster Elementary, Ambler Elementary School, Central Elementary, Chastain Road Elementary, Clemson Elementary, Crosswell Elementary, Dacusville Elementary, East End Elementary, Forest Acres Elementary, Hagood Elementary, Holly Springs Elementary, A.R. Lewis Elementary, Liberty Elementary, McKissick Elementary, Pickens Elementary, Six Mile Elementary, West End Elementary.
Middle Schools: Seneca, Walhalla, West-Oak.
High Schools: Seneca, Tamassee-Salem Middle/High, Walhalla, West-Oak.
Colleges/Universities: Clemson University, Tri-County Technical College, Anderson University.
Lake Features
Lake Keowee’s waters cover approximately 18,500 acres and there is 300 miles of shoreline. The full water elevation of Lake Keowee is around 800 feet. It is 23 miles long and 3 miles wide at the widest point. There is an average depth of 54 feet. The lake also serves to give drinking water to the Greenville and Seneca areas around the lake.
Sporting
Living On The Lake/Socioeconomic
Duke Energy
Duke Energy controls the lake very much. In the summer of 2011, Duke Energy talked of changes to nuclear station pumps to allow for more flexibility in changing Lake Keowee's levels when there were dry spells and droughts in the area. The change was requested by the Army Corps of Engineers
Miscellaneous
FOLKS
There is a society for the lake, founded by the citizens around it. FOLKS is the Friends Of Lake Keowee Society. It was established in 1993 to focus peoples attention on the importance of Lake Keowee and its economical and recreation affects on its surrounding areas.
FOLKS has a program that lets citizens adopt an island, which is called the Island Keeper Program. This is in place to keep islands clean, and make island sweeps to keep trash off of the islands. Littering is a very large problem Lake Keowee has on the islands it has. Duke Energy will soon post signs all around lake access points for boats that will give day-use rules for the lake.