Big Lake-Lake Mitchell water raising project data, 1933-1951.
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United States. Public Works Administration
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The Santee-Cooper Navigation and Hydro-Electric Project to improve navigation on and provide hydro-electric power from the Santee and Cooper Rivers was authorized by the South Carolina legislature in 1934. Federal approval for the Project was granted in 1935 and construction takes place from 1939-1941; power generation begins in 1942. Fossil fuel generating stations constructed in 1951, 1966, 1972, 1977 and 1981 and a nuclear plant, in cooperation with South Carolina Electric & Gas, opened i...
Sherburne County (Minn.). Board of County Commissioners.
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In 1933, landowners on Big Lake and Lake Mitchell, connected bodies of water, petitioned the Sherburne County Board of Commissioners to raise the water level of the two lakes. The board adopted a resolution stating that the area's public health and welfare would be promoted by re-establishment of the water level. Raising the level required the acquisition of land over which a pipeline would be laid and a pumping station located to pump water from the Elk River into Lake Mitchell. The Sherburne C...
