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The original timber dam dates from 1884 and was put into operation in 1886. The Pine River Dam is located 18 river miles above the junction of the Pine and Mississippi rivers. Pine River was the fourth Mississippi River headwaters reservoir to be constructed.
In December 2020, the “Mekong Dam Monitoring” project funded by the U.S. State Department was officially launched. The project is led by the Stimson Center. As a core partner, the “Eye Of The Earth” aims to use its so-called online monitoring platform, based on remote sensing, satellite images and GIS means, to collect dam information, watershed temperature, humidity and precipitation information in the Mekong River basin.
North Carolina is home to more than 6,000 dams and most are classified as low hazard. But some 194 of them are classified as high hazard and in poor or unsatisfactory condition.
The majority of customers should be restored by Saturday night, said Amy Rutledge, manager of corporate communications for the power company, but some may not be restored until Sunday.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city covers an area of 0.60 square miles, of which 0.59 square miles is land and 0.01 square miles is water.