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Townes Dam, Virginia
Townes Dam on the Dan in Virginia.
Open in BirdTrout36.6856, -80.4303 · Patrick County · NID VA141002. Tap the map to open this water in the live app.
What the runs do here
Dan 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
- Northbrook Carolina Hydro II, LLC Private
- Purpose
- Hydroelectric
- Completed
- 1938
- Type
- Arch
- Height
- 133 ft
- Length
- 575 ft
- Spillway
- Uncontrolled, 120 ft wide
- Storage
- 1,400 acre-ft · 40 acre pool
- Drainage
- 33 sq mi
- Condition
- Satisfactory · High hazard potential
- Status
- Normal Operations
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
- Round Meadow Creek 0.52 mi from the dam · Class III · wild (VDWR)
- Mayberry Creek 0.52 mi from the dam · Class III · wild (VDWR)
- Sawpit Branch 0.58 mi from the dam · Class II · wild (VDWR)
- Haunted Branch 0.74 mi from the dam · Class II · wild (VDWR)
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
No USGS temperature gauge we read reports within 20 miles of this dam, so this page has no live number for it. That is a gap in the gauge network, not a judgement about the water.
Getting to it
The dam sits on or beside public land, CNTY.
No listed public access site within 8 miles of this dam.