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Mary Elmer Lake Dam is of earthen construction, a gravity dam, with a height of 15 feet (4.6 m) and a length of 500 feet (150 m). Maximum discharge is 4,078 cubic feet (115.5 m) per second. Normal storage is 68 acre-feet (84,000 m). It drains an area of 7.5 square miles
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Mary Elmer Lake was originally known as
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