Georgia’s Newest Lake: Hickory Log Creek Dam in Canton

Construction on the dam to build Hickory Log Creek Resorvoir, in Canton, GA finished up last week.  The reservoir will cover 370 acres when full, and offer 15 miles of shoreline.  Compared to Lake Lanier’s 38,000 acres of water, and 692 miles of shoreline at normal level and Lake Allatoona’s 12,010 acres.  Now if we could just get some rain to slow the drought, the resorvoir could begin to fill.  It is projected to take 2 years to fill the lake.  The AJC has good coverage of the process and added this about the drought and resorvioir:  "The ongoing drought — the harshest on record — has reduced Hickory Log Creek to a trickle. Last week, the flow of the Etowah River tributary was about 2 cubic feet, about 15 gallons, a second. Normal flow is 10 cubic feet a second.  That’s one reason it will take as long to fill the reservoir as it did to build the 180-foot high dam."

You can view a photo slideshow with informational comments at ajc.com.

Visit the official Hickory Log Creek Dam website and gain useful info at Hickory Log Creek Wikipedia.

Here is a cool ‘bird’s eye view’ of a conceptual model of what the lake might look like.