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Braswell's Dam, Virginia

Braswell's Dam on the Dan River in Virginia.

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36.7777, -80.3663 · Patrick County · NID VA141008. Tap the map to open this water in the live app.

What the runs do here

Dan River carries no anadromous run on our corridor map, so this page makes no claim about salmon or steelhead at this dam. What it sits on is coldwater — resident trout water — and the section below says which classification says so.

The structure

Owner
Payson N. and Sara J. Sullivan Private
Purpose
Recreation
Type
Earth
Height
33 ft
Length
900 ft
Storage
205 acre-ft · 12 acre pool
Drainage
0 sq mi
Condition
Fair · High hazard potential
Status
Under Investigation, Planning, Permitting, or Design for Remediation

From the National Inventory of Dams (USACE). Hazard potential is a downstream-consequence classification, not a statement about the structure's condition.

The water above and below

Coldwater designation is the state's own classification. A dam sits on one river and this list is every designated reach within a mile and a half of it, so a tributary mouth shows up here too.

Water right now

GaugeDistanceTempFlow
Smith River near Philpott, Va 18.9 mi 44.6 °F 137 cfs

Live from USGS. A gauge miles away is a gauge miles away — the distance column is there so you can discount it. A hydro dam's releases move the flow below it on a schedule the gauge sees and this page does not.

Getting to it

No listed public access site within 8 miles of this dam.

Fly shops nearby

The river this is on

Open this water on the map →Every reach around it coloured by today's water temperature, with the access points along it.