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Lake Level
506.14 FEET
7/29/2010
Full Pool: 510.0
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WSFA Date: 7/28/2010 8:23:19 PM In fact, two people drowned in June within 48 hours of each other near the same spot on the Alabama River in Elmore County. What isn't clear is how many ...See all stories on this topic… Read More
FLW Outdoors Date: 7/28/2010 5:37:26 PM Bennett did it in 2008 by winning the season's second tour stop at Lewis Smith Lake. Fritts won two events the same season he won the championship… Read More
Cullman Times Online Date: 7/6/2010 9:47:59 PM Smith Lake Park is located in on the shores of the 21200 acre Lewis Smith Lake with 500 miles of shoreline. The park is open for year-round camping… Read More
Anniston Star Date: 7/6/2010 7:59:16 PM by AP ALEXANDER CITY — Two men drowned in Alabama lakes, one of them a 23-year-old who drowned in Lake Martin. Officer Mark Fuller of the Alabama Marine… Read More
Environmental Protection Agency Date: 7/6/2010 July 15th Webcast: Healthy Lakeshores Through Better Shoreline Stewardship The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Watershed Academy is pleased to sponsor its 50th free Webcast Seminar on July 15, 2010 at 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Eastern in honor of Lakes Appreciation Month. In this Webcast participants can learn… Read More |
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SMITH LAKE BUSINESSES
Lewis Smith Lake (or Smith Lake) is located in North-Central Alabama about 20 miles northwest of Birmingham in state of Alabama (U.S.) counties of Cullman, Walker and Winston. The 300-foot high dam, completed in 1961 by Alabama Power Company, impounds the Sipsey Fork of the Black Warrior River to form the lake. Smith Lake has a surface area of 21,200 acres, 500 miles of shoreline, a watershed area of 944 square miles, a retention time of 435 days, and a maximum depth of 264 feet. The western side of the lake's watershed is crowned by the 180,000-acre Bankhead National Forest, which blankets the deeply dissected southern edge of the Cumberland Plateau. The Sipsey Fork of the Black Warrior River, Alabama's only Wild and Scenic River, flows through the Bankhead National Forest. The Sipsey Wilderness, Land of a Thousand Waterfalls, lies within the Bankhead National Forest and is home to Alabama's largest tree, a tulip poplar with a 21-foot circumference at its base.
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Quick Info About
Smith Lake - River: Black Warrior - Area: 21,200 Acres - Shoreline: 500 Miles - Length: 35 Miles - Avg. Depth: 66 Ft. - Vol: 1,670,700 Acre Ft. - Drainage: 944 Sq. Mi. |
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