Lay Dam
Lay Dam is a hydroelectric power dam on the Coosa River in Chilton County and Coosa County, near Clanton, Alabama. The concrete run-of-the-river gravity dam was built in 1914 as the first major project of Alabama Power Company, and named for Captain William Patrick Lay, its first president.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Lay Dam
- Type: Dam
- Description: dam in Clanton, Alabama
- Categories: gravity dam and hydroelectric power station
- Location: Coosa, Alabama, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
32.96351° or 32° 57′ 49″ northLongitude
-86.51692° or 86° 31′ 1″ westElevation
390 feet (119 metres)Open location code
864MXF7M+C6OpenStreetMap ID
node 358918142OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=dam
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Lay Dam” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Lay Dam”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lay-demningen”
- Norwegian: “Lay-demningen”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС Lay”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС Лей”
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