Dresden Cooling Lake Dam
Dresden Cooling Lake Dam is a dam in Goose Lake Township, Grundy, Illinois. Dresden Cooling Lake Dam is situated nearby to the nature reserve Goose Lake Prairie State Natural Area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Dresden Generating Station and Goose Lake Prairie State Natural Area.
Dresden Generating Station
Power station
Photo: ENERGY.GOV, Public domain.
Dresden Generating Station is the first privately financed nuclear power plant built in the United States. Dresden 1 was activated in 1960 and retired in 1978. Dresden Generating Station is situated 2 miles north of Dresden Cooling Lake Dam.
Goose Lake Prairie State Natural Area
Nature reserve
Goose Lake Prairie State Natural Area is a 2,537-acre state park in Illinois. More than half of the state park is a tallgrass prairie maintained as an Illinois Nature Preserve. Goose Lake Prairie State Natural Area is situated 2½ miles west of Dresden Cooling Lake Dam.
Morris Operation
The Morris Operation in Grundy County, Illinois, United States, is the location of the only permanent de facto high-level radioactive waste storage site in the United States and holds 772 tons of spent nuclear fuel. Morris Operation is situated 1½ miles northwest of Dresden Cooling Lake Dam.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Channahon and Carbon Hill.
Channahon
Town
Photo: LittleT889, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Channahon is a village in Grundy and Will counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. The population was 13,383 at the 2020 census. Located in a rural area southwest of Joliet, Illinois, Channahon lies at the confluence of the Des Plaines, Kankakee, and DuPage rivers, where they form the Illinois River. Channahon is situated 4½ miles north of Dresden Cooling Lake Dam.
Carbon Hill
Village
Carbon Hill is a village in Grundy County, Illinois, United States. The population was 372 at the 2020 census. Carbon Hill is situated 5 miles southwest of Dresden Cooling Lake Dam.
Diamond
Hamlet
Diamond is a village in Grundy and Will Counties, Illinois. The population was 2,640 at the 2020 census. Diamond is situated 5 miles south of Dresden Cooling Lake Dam.
Dresden Cooling Lake Dam
- Type: Dam
- Description: dam in Grundy County, Illinois, United States of America
- Location: Goose Lake Township, Grundy, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.36503° or 41° 21′ 54″ northLongitude
-88.2584° or 88° 15′ 30″ westElevation
522 feet (159 metres)Open location code
86HH9P8R+2JOpenStreetMap ID
node 354181761OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=dam
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- Cebuano: “Dresden Cooling Lake Dam”
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