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.Lay Dam
- Type: Power station
- Description: dam in Clanton, Alabama
- Categories: gravity dam, hydroelectric power station, building, and industry
- Location: Shelby, Alabama, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
32.96333° or 32° 57′ 48″ northLongitude
-86.51917° or 86° 31′ 9″ westInception
February 1967Operator
Alabama PowerOpen location code
864MXF7J+88OpenStreetMap ID
way 186030003OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesWikidata ID
Q6505339
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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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