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Taylor Lake Dam, North Carolina

Taylor Lake Dam on UT to Merrills Cove Creek in North Carolina.

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35.4688, -82.4661 · Buncombe County · NID NC01252. Tap the map to open this water in the live app.

What the runs do here

UT to Merrills Cove Creek 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
Taylor Land Company, LLC Private
Purpose
Recreation
Type
Earth
Height
25 ft
Length
270 ft
Storage
50 acre-ft · 5 acre pool
Condition
Satisfactory · Low hazard potential

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
French Broad River near Fletcher, Nc 5.6 mi 67.5 °F 955 cfs
Mills River near Mills River, Nc 8.7 mi 64.4 °F 63 cfs
French Broad River at Haywood Rd at Asheville, Nc 9.9 mi 69.3 °F —

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

Public access sites near the dam, straight-line distance. A dam itself is private property unless its owner says otherwise; these are the places the state lists as open.

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.