Download or read book Building an Inland Sea Clarks Hill Lake on the Upper Savannah and the Twentieth Century Lives Land and River Hidden by Its Waters written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis recounts the origins of the dam and reservoir built by the Army Corps of Engineers in the late 1940s and early 1950s on the Savannah River, near Clarks Hill, South Carolina, and explores the experiences of people required to sell property and move to make way for the reservoir. To build the Clarks Hill hydropower project, the Corps acquired more than 140,000 acres on both sides of the river in Georgia and South Carolina, with about half that acreage flooded to create the reservoir. The history of people who had owned the land before the Corps, and in some cases lived on it, has receded from the awareness of many people, to the point that the lake seems more like a natural feature than a product of large-scale engineering. That underlying history receded further when Congress changed the name of the project from Clarks Hill to the J. Strom Thurmond Dam and Lake in 1987, in that Thurmond did not symbolize the specific residents and landscape impacted by the dam. Using several oral-history interviews conducted by the author, and drawing on the written record as well, this thesis seeks to reclaim a space in the story of the project for the people it dispossessed of land and homes. The power of the federal government effectively limited the options for people who otherwise would have kept their land. But they had stronger connections to the land and found more value in it than supporters of the dam explicitly recognized, in the arguments they made for the project and in early assessments of the reservoir basin. More people lived within the zone of land acquisition, they were a more diverse group, they felt stronger connections to the land and saw more potential in it for the future. It was not such a used-up, vacant, and valueless landscape.
Download or read book Southern Water Southern Power written by Christopher J. Manganiello and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why has the American South--a place with abundant rainfall--become embroiled in intrastate wars over water? Why did unpredictable flooding come to characterize southern waterways, and how did a region that seemed so rich in this all-important resource become derailed by drought and the regional squabbling that has tormented the arid American West? To answer these questions, policy expert and historian Christopher Manganiello moves beyond the well-known accounts of flooding in the Mississippi Valley and irrigation in the West to reveal the contested history of southern water. From the New South to the Sun Belt eras, private corporations, public utilities, and political actors made a region-defining trade-off: The South would have cheap energy, but it would be accompanied by persistent water insecurity. Manganiello's compelling environmental history recounts stories of the people and institutions that shaped this exchange and reveals how the use of water and power in the South has been challenged by competition, customers, constituents, and above all, nature itself.
Download or read book Operation and Maintenance of Clarks Hill Lake Savannah River Georgia and South Carolina written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Clark Hill Reservoir Savannah River Basin Georgia and South Carolina written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Savannah District and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Savannah River and Clark Hill Reservoir Ga and S C Hearings on the Subject of the Improvement of the Savannah River Ga written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Savannah River and Clarks Hill Reservoir Ga and S C written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Savannah River and Clarke Hill Reservoir Ga and S C Hearings on the Improvement of the Savannah River Ga written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Savannah River and Clark Hill Reservoir Ga and S C written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Clark Hill Project in Savannah River Basin written by Burton J. Bell and published by . This book was released on 1948* with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book CLARK HILL RESERVOIR SAVANNAH RIVER GEORGIA AND SOUTH CAROLINA DESIGN MEMORANDUM NO 23 INTERCHANGE OF LANDS BETWEEN THE U S ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS AND U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOREST SERVICE written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Savannah District and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book CLARK HILL RESERVOIR SAVANNAH RIVER GEORGIA AND SOUTH CAROLINA DESIGN MEMORANDUM NO 25 LAKE MANAGER S OFFICE AND VISITOR CENTER written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Savannah District and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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