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Completing the quintet, these waters provide essential flood protection and habitats for diverse aquatic species. Directions

💡 Collectively, these five lakes hold more water surface than all the lakes in West Virginia combined, which total only 21,938 acres [20]. 🛠️ Engineered for a Purpose 122253

Over decades, silt accumulation can make once-deep shorelines inaccessible, turning "fishable water" into barren mudflats [10]. Completing the quintet, these waters provide essential flood

Often called the "Jewel of the Blue Ridge," providing critical pumped-storage hydroelectric power. Directions Completing the quintet