| Council Bluff Lake | |
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  Council Bluff Lake | |
| Location | Iron County, Missouri |
| Coordinates | 37°43′37″N 90°54′54″W / 37.727°N 90.915°W |
| Surface area | 440 acres (1.8 km2) |
| Max. depth | 87 ft (27 m) |
Council Bluff Lake is a lake in Mark Twain National Forest in Iron County, Missouri.[1] It is 440 acres in area.[1][2][3][4] Some parts of the lake are 87 feet deep.[2][4]
The lake was created when Big River was dammed.[2] The Council Bluff Dam construction began in 1979 and was completed in 1981.[5] It was at the time the largest earthfill dam ever built by the USDA-Forest Service with an embankment height of 124 feet.[5]
- ^ a b "Council Bluff Lake". MDC Fisheries. 2012-02-28. Retrieved 2020-05-26.
- ^ a b c "Council Bluff Recreation Area". Mark Twain National Forest. Retrieved 2020-05-26.
- ^ Henry, S. (2014). Best Tent Camping: Missouri and the Ozarks: Your Car-Camping Guide to Scenic Beauty, the Sounds of Nature, and an Escape from Civilization. Best Tent Camping. Menasha Ridge Press. p. 81. ISBN 978-0-89732-644-5. Retrieved 2020-05-26.
- ^ a b Bezemek, M. (2017). Paddling the Ozarks: A Guide to the Area's Greatest Paddling Adventures. Falcon Guides. p. 140. ISBN 978-1-4930-2543-5. Retrieved 2020-05-26.
- ^ a b Mathur, T. S.; Willis, R. M. (June 1–5, 1988). "Performance of an Instrumented Earth Dam with Fat Clay Core". Proceedings: Second International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering.