Rodman Reservoir
Rodman Reservoir Lake Ocklawaha |
|
---|---|
Location | Putnam / Marion counties, Florida, United States |
Coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Type | reservoir |
Primary inflows | Ocklawaha River |
Primary outflows | Ocklawaha River |
Basin countries | United States |
Max. length | 16 mi (26 km)[1] |
Max. width | 3 mi (4.8 km)[1] |
Surface area | 13,000 acres (53 km2)[1] |
Average depth | 8 ft (2.4 m)[1] |
Max. depth | 30 ft (9.1 m)[1] |
Surface elevation | 20 ft (6.1 m) |
References | [1] |
Rodman Reservoir, or Lake Ocklawaha, is an artificial reservoir located on the Ocklawaha River in Putnam County and Marion County in north central Florida. The reservoir, located about 15 miles southwest of Palatka, is between State Road 19 on the east and State Road 315 on the west. [1] Before the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers created the reservoir, they used a mammoth machine called the crusher-crawler to destroy sections of the forest along the Ocklawaha's wooded riverbanks. Upon closing Rodman Dam and flooding the reservoir in 1968, the crushed trees floated up to the top of the reservoir. The dam and reservoir were the first of a set of two dams and reservoirs that the Corps planned to build along the Ocklawaha River to facilitate navigation along the Cross Florida Barge Canal. However, in 1971, due to the successful efforts of environmentalist Marjorie Harris Carr and Florida Defenders of the Environment (FDE), President Richard Nixon halted construction of the canal. Carr worked until her death in 1997 to preserve and restore the Ocklawaha River. Rodman Dam was later named the George Kirkpatrick Dam to honor the Florida state senator who was one of the dam's biggest proponents. FDE's campaign for a free-flowing Ocklawaha is in its fifth decade.[2]
External links
<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>
<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- Wikipedia infobox body of water articles without image
- Landforms of Marion County, Florida
- Landforms of Putnam County, Florida
- Reservoirs in Florida
- Ocala National Forest
- Dams in Florida
- United States Army Corps of Engineers dams
- Dams completed in 1968
- Protected areas of Putnam County, Florida
- Marion County, Florida geography stubs
- North Central Florida geography stubs