Capacity
Boone Dam is a concrete gravity-type dam 160 feet (49 m) high and 1,532 feet (467 m) long, and has a generating capacity of 81,000 kilowatts. While the main section of the dam is a concrete structure, the northern half of the dam consists of a 750-foot (230 m) earth-and-fill structure that seals off the floodplain adjacent to the main river channel. The dam's overfall spillway has five radial gates with a combined maximum discharge of 137,000 cubic feet per second (3,900 m3/s). Boone Lake has 168 miles (270 km) of shoreline and a flood storage capacity of 75,829 acre feet (93,534,000 m3). The reservoir's operating levels vary by about 20 feet (6.1 m) in a typical year.
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