Official name Curwensville Dam | Length 869 m | |
Location Pike Township, near Curwensville, Pennsylvania Impounds West Branch Susquehanna River Creates West Branch Susquehanna River Create West Branch Susquehanna River Similar Great Smoky Mountains, Great Smoky Mountain, Clearfield County Courthouse, Sesame Place, Conneaut Lake Park | ||
Curwensville Dam is located on the West Branch Susquehanna River about 0.6 miles (1 km) upstream from Curwensville in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. The dam is an earth fill structure 2,850 feet long, rising 131 feet above the stream bed, with a spillway and gate-controlled outlet.
Map of Curwensville Dam, Curwensville, PA 16833, USA
The reservoir, Curwensville Lake, has a storage capacity of 124,200 acre foot (153,000,000 m3) at spillway crest and extends 14 miles (23 km) upstream when filled to that level. The project controls a drainage area of 365 square miles (950 km2) or 98 percent of the West Branch at Curwensville and 75 percent at Clearfield, PA.
The project is owned and operated by the United States Army Corps of Engineers. Clearfield County operates and maintains the recreation area which includes a beach, boat launch, picnic areas, athletic fields, playgrounds, picnic pavilions and a 43-site campground.