About Lake Yonah
Our Family's Cabin
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Lake Yonah is the favorite place to those who have been there. Once you are there for a few days, you never want to leave.
Susan grew up on Lake Yonah...there were summers that every weekend was spent there. One visit to Lake Yonah for Brian and he was hooked for life. Due to our love for Lake Yonah, it was the perfect honeymoon location.
Yonah Dam
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Yonah Dam
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Now for some technical inforamtion about Lake Yonah and Yonah Dam. Lake Yonah is located on the Georgia/South Carolina border northeast from Toccoa, Georgia on Hwy. 184, 6 miles. It is owned by Georgia Power. Yonah Dam, completed in 1925, is the lowest step in the staircase of six power developments down which the waters of the Tallulah, Chattooga, and Tugalo rivers are led in their plunge from the Blue Ridge Mountain heights toward the Atlantic Coastal plain. Yonah’s storage lake (approximately 320 acres of surface area and 150,000,000 cubic feet capacity) is impounded by a cyclopean dam 900 feet long and 75 feet high with a direct plunge from surface to waterwheel of 75 feet. It has three 12,500 horsepower waterwheels. Power is developed at a voltage of 6,600 and is stepped up to 110,000 volts for transmission to the 81 cities and towns in the company’s territory.
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