ABC Wednesday: D is for Dam

When you're ready to drop from fatigue at Shelley Lake, you can rest on the bench on top of the dam and look at the lake.

Down below the dam, water from the lake drips and gushes into a pool and then it floats into the stream.

In the winter the dam is brown and in the summer it's green. The Shelley Lake dam frequently has geese waddling downhill searching for dribs and drabs of nourishment.

Dams are diverse in design and size and diverge from each other based on what they are required to do. Shelley Lake Dam is relatively small (53 acre lake and park land - I think that's a combined figure). The next Dam (Falls Lake Dam) is a man made reservoir which covers approximately 12,500 acres with water and is surrounded by 25,000 acres of public land.

The Falls Lake dam has information about how it was built and what is does.

If you are interested in the Falls Lake Dam and can't read the information in the photographs of the signs, you can click here to visit its website.

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