Kinzau Dam
| Kinzua Dam | |
|---|---|
 Kinzua Dam in July 2015 | |
| Official name | Kinzua Dam |
| Location | Allegheny National Forest Glade Township / Mead Township, Warren County, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Coordinates | 41°50′16″N 79°0′11″W / 41.83778°N 79.00306°W |
| Construction began | 1960 |
| Opening date | 1965 |
| Operator(s) | Army Corps of Engineers |
| Dam and spillways | |
| Impounds | Allegheny River |
| Height | 179 feet (55 m) |
| Length | 1,897 feet (578 m) |
| Width (base) | 1,245 feet (379 m) |
| Reservoir | |
| Creates | Allegheny Reservoir |
| Total capacity | 1,300,000 acre-feet (1.6 km3) |
| Active capacity | 573,000 acre-feet (0.707 km3) |
The Kinzua Dam is one of the largest dams east of the Mississippi River. It is along the Allegheny River in Warren County, Pennsylvania. It was created to control floods.
The construction of the dam forced many Native American Seneca people off of their land. The Seneca lost a lot of farming land. They wrote a letter to John F. Kennedy to stop the dam. He refused. They lost the Cornplanter Tract.[1][2] Several towns including Corydon, Kinzua, Quaker Bridge, and Red House were forced to move.[3]
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- ↑ Kennedy, John F. (August 9, 1961), "Letter to the President of the Seneca Nation of Indians Concerning the Kinzua Dam on the Allegheny River", retrieved February 3, 2011
- ↑ "The complicated history of the Kinzua Dam and how it changed life for the Seneca people". EHN. January 30, 2020. Retrieved August 16, 2022.
- ↑ Hoover, William E. (2005). Kinzua: From Cornplanter to the Corps. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-595-38116-6.