Copyrighted
Information from
Lake Norman Reflections (a
book about Lake Norman)
LAKE NORMAN
l a
r g e s t m a n - m a d e l a k e i n n o r t h c a r o l i n a
Lake Norman
is as big as the other 10 Catawba River lakes
combined
Length: 34 miles
Width at its
widest point: 8 miles
Surface area:
32,510 acres
Average depth: 33
feet
Maximum depth:
130 feet
Water capacity at
full pond: 3.4 trillion gallons
Elevation above
sea level: 760 feet
Watershed:
approximately 5,000 square miles
Cowans Ford Dam
is more than a mile wide
Concrete portion
of the dam: 1,279 feet long and 130 feet high.
Total length of
Cowans Ford Hydroelectric Station: 7,387 ft.
Lake Norman has 520 miles of
shoreline touching four counties
Mecklenburg: 90 miles of shoreline
Iredell: 225
miles of shoreline
Catawba: 140
miles of shoreline
Lincoln: 65 miles of shoreline
