Martin Dam
Martin Dam is a concrete arch gravity dam on the Tallapoosa River in Alabama in the United States, about 10 miles southwest of Dadeville. Impounding the 40,000-acre Lake Martin, the dam was built in the 1920s to provide flood control, hydroelectric power generation and water supply.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Power station
- Description: dam in Tallapoosa County, Alabama, United States of America
- Also known as: “Martin Powerhouse”
Martin Dam
- Categories: dam, hydroelectric power station, building, and industry
- Location: Elmore, Alabama, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
32.68° or 32° 40′ 48″ northLongitude
-85.91146° or 85° 54′ 41″ westInception
January 1927Operator
Alabama PowerOpen location code
864PM3HQ+XCOpenStreetMap ID
way 190492028OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesWikidata ID
Q6775250
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Martin Dam” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Martin Dam”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سد مارتن”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مارتن دام”
- Italian: “diga di Martin”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Martin-demningen”
- Norwegian: “Martin-demningen”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС Мартін”
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