Table Rock Dam

Table Rock Dam

Table Rock Dam is situated on the White River in Southwestern Missouri eight miles upstream and Southwest of Branson, Missouri. Table Rock Lake expands 79 miles upstream along the White River and immerses regions in Missouri and Arkansas.  There are many Branson events to enjoy and things to do around the lake and this dam.

Table Rock Dam is 6423 feet long and comprises of a solid area 1602 feet long and two earth dike areas having a length of 4821 feet. The dam rises 252 feet over the riverbed, contains 1,230,000 cubic yards of concrete and 3,320,000 cubic yards of bank. Four 18 foot width penstocks pass on water to four 50,000 kilowatt producing units in the powerhouse. The initial two units were prepared for age of intensity in June 1959, and establishment of units three and four was finished in August 1961.

Table Rock Dam’s spillway limit was assessed because of a dam security program in the 1990’s. Utilizing enhanced climate information and more current innovation and wellbeing prerequisites, engineers discovered that the lake would rise ten feet higher amid the most pessimistic scenario surge than beforehand computed. An occasion of this greatness would overtop the earthen bank and annihilate Table Rock Dam with cataclysmic misfortunes in downstream regions including Branson. To keep the potential death toll and property harms, congress affirmed and approved development of the Dam Safety Project. In the wake of thinking about a few alternatives and social event impressive open info, a helper spillway was resolved to be the best arrangement. The helper spillway was finished in 2005 at a cost of apx $65,000,000

Table Rock Lake gives a capacity limit of 3,462,000 section of land feet, of which 760,000 are for surge control and 2,702,000 are for age of intensity. The surge control stockpiling is proportional to a profundity of 3.5 crawls of water over the whole contributing waste region over the dam, 4020 square miles. At the highest point of surge control pool the lake has a surface territory of 52,300 sections of land and a shoreline of 857 miles. The full preservation pool covers a territory of 43,100 sections of land and has a shoreline of 745 miles.

Table Rock Lake is being worked amid surge periods in conjunction with different lakes in the bowl to counteract harms along the White and lower Mississippi Rivers. Since May 1957 surge decrease in the White River has come about because of the consolidated impact of the Table Rock, Bull Shoals, and Norfork Lakes, with Beaver Lake affecting control since 1964.