The Bluestone Dam and Lake
Along the road from Pipestem to Hinton in West Virginia, you
will run into the Bluestone Dam and lake.
This over 10 mile stretch of water provides visitors with boating and
fishing opportunities. Around the blue
waters are places for picnicking and camping.
The area also provides more activities to keep you and your family very
busy.
The Bluestone Dam’s construction started in early 1941, was
halted in 1944 because of WWII, and recommenced in 1946. The concrete gravity dam was finished in 1949
and situated approximately upstream from where the New and Greenbrier Rivers
met. This massive dam is about 165 feet
high and over 2,000 feet long. The
latest information on the dam is because fears of flooding at the site,
engineers had 8 feet of anchors and thrust blocks added to the height to tie
the dam into the bedrock. They enhanced the
spillway and did other major improvements to keep the dam safe.
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