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Did you Know?
The top of the dam is 200 feet above the Savannah River Bed.
Find out more interesting fact about J. Strom Thurmond Lake
HERE!
J. Strom Thurmond
Dam and Lake
510 Clarks Hill Highway
Clarks Hill, SC 29821
Phone Numbers
864-333-1100
or toll free at
1-800-533-3478
Corps of Engineers Headquarters'
Homepage
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| J. Strom Thurmond Dam and Lake
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| About the Corps |
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The Big Picture |
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is the nation’s premier federal
engineering agency and one of the Army’s major commands. Our mission
is to provide engineering and management services in support of
national defense and development of national water resources.
Specifically, we:
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Design and manage
construction for the Army and Air Force as well as buy, manage and
dispose of land
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Plan, design, build,
operate and maintain projects for flood control, navigation, shore
protection, ecosystem restoration, hydroelectric power, water supply
for municipalities and industry, recreation, and fish and wildlife
management.
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Respond to disasters and
emergencies
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Protect/regulate
wetlands
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Restore the environment
by cleaning up hazardous waster and active munitions on current and
formerly used defense sites
The Corps accomplishes all of this and more through its 41 districts,
8 division offices, 4 research and development laboratories, and
offices worldwide.
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| Focus on Savannah |
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Savannah District |
Savannah is a
full-service district, having both military and civil works programs.
About 80 percent of our annual workload is in support of the 9 Army
and 5 Air Force installations in Georgia and the Carolinas. The
district’s civil works boundary encompasses two-thirds of eastern
Georgia and our regulatory boundary encompasses the entire state. We
perform maintenance dredging in the Savannah and Brunswick harbors and
maintain a significant portion of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway.
We operate 3 multi-purpose dam and lake projects on the upper Savannah
River. Our Real Estate Division also handles property acquisition,
disposal, leasing and forest management for Charleston and Wilmington
districts. We have more than 900 employees working in our district
headquarters and 28 field offices, but our team is more than 35,000
strong because of our access to the resources of the entire U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers.
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How We Operate
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Authority for all of our civil works projects is found in
Congressionally enacted Public Law. Proposed projects must pass a
benefit/cost test before they can receive Congressional approval and
funding. Some projects require local sponsorship in order to be built,
with the local sponsor assuming a percentage of the cost. The Corps’
civil works projects emphasize equally economic growth and protecting
the environment.
While our military customers have some latitude in who they will hire
to do their work, by federal law all major design and construction
work is handled by the Corps of Engineers. In addition to O & M
(operations and maintenance) work, some of our customers ask that we
provide direct on-site support to fill gaps caused by shrinking
personnel resources at their installations.
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| Key Military Projects |
Our projected design and construction workload at Army and Air Force
installations through 2003 is approximately $1.5 billion.
The bulk of the work is at Fort Bragg, where we have been building
what amounts to a small city. The work includes 3 major barracks
projects that we’re building for the 82nd Airborne Division at a cost
of about $300 million.
The district dredges Kings Bay for the Navy and performs work at Shaw
AFB, S.C., by request, but our bread and butter is the military
installations we support in Georgia and the Carolinas.
Georgia
South Carolina
Robins AFB
Fort Jackson
Fort Stewart
Hunter AAF
Fort Benning
North Carolina
Fort Gordon
Fort Bragg
Fort McPherson
Seymour Johnson AFB
Fort Gillem
Pope AFB
Moody AFB
Military Ocean Terminal at Sunny Point
Dobbins AFB
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| Key Civil Works Projects |
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We are responsible for
all rivers in Georgia flowing into the Atlantic Ocean. Key projects
include partnering with the city of Savannah to restore a more natural
flow in the Lower Savannah River Basin and partnering with Georgia and
South Carolina to determine if changes are needed to meet current and
future water needs in the basin. In 2000, we built groins to slow
erosion on the beach at Tybee Island, Ga., and deposited 1.3 million
cubic yards of high-quality sand. We processed 1,934 permit
applications in fiscal year 2000 as part of our regulatory
responsibility for protecting waters of the U.S. Our 3 lakes –
Hartwell, Richard B. Russell and J. Strom Thurmond – provide
hydropower, flood protection, recreation, and environmental
stewardship:
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Two of our 3 lakes are
among the most visited Corps sites in the U.S.
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Our powerplants supply
42% of the Corps South Atlantic Division contribution
to SEPA (Southeastern Power Administration)
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Our reservoir system has
markedly decreased flood damage from storm events
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| Environmental Program |
Savannah is a design district for hazardous, toxic, and radioactive
waste (HTRW) projects. Along with Mobile District, we are responsible
for the Army’s Defense Environmental Restoration Program (DERP) work
in the South Atlantic Division, where we clean up hazardous waste on
current and formerly used defense sites. We also perform work for
other government agencies by request. Our customers have included the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. Navy, and U.S. Coast
Guard.
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| Emergency Operations |
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The Corps executes
recovery missions assigned by FEMA during natural emergencies. We
assist with damage assessments, hydrographic surveys, and recovery and
repair operations. Our district lead the Corps’ Tropical Storm Alberto
recovery operations. Savannah’s mission within the Corps’ South
Atlantic Division is to supply emergency power and temporary housing.
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