‘Lake Toxaway Spillway’

‘Lake Toxaway Spillway’
This is the view from the top of the Lake Toxaway spillway just below the damn and above the falls. I posted this image in ’Man & Nature’ because of the three houses visible on the far hillside directly below the Eagle. Lake Toxaway was filled originally in 1902 in the mountains of North Carolina. The area became known as the "Switzerland of America". Lake Toxaway was the first artificial lake built in the Appalachian Mountains, the earthen dam was 500 feet (150 m) long, 60 feet (18 m) high and 20 feet (6.1 m) wide at the top. On August 13, 1916 after severe flooding, which deluged the Toxaway River with 24 inches of rain in 24 hours, the dam, which had not been engineered with a water level control, gave way under the stress and sent more than 5 billion US gallons of water crashing over the falls into South Carolina. Toxaway Falls still shows the trauma of the dam burst, its granite rock is exposed for a great distance down the falls. In 1963 began the project of restoring the 640-area lake on the Toxaway River with the rebuilding of the dam that restored the lake to its original level of 3,010 feet (920 m) above sea level.

File Name Ramy_1125_CF37
Camera Model Canon EOS 7D
Shooting Date/Time 11/4/2013 3:23:15 PM
Author Michael Ramy
Copyright Notice Rock Art Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
Shooting Mode Shutter-Priority AE
Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/100
Av( Aperture Value ) 22.0
Metering Mode Evaluative Metering
Exposure Compensation -1 1/3
ISO Speed 320
Auto ISO Speed OFF
Lens 10-24mm
Focal Length 10.0mm
Tripod
Full Frame