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Savannah River's oldest dam could need repairs soon

...are obscured by the river's flow."I'd like to try to get the commission to coordinate a low flow day with Stevens Creek Dam upstream in order to go out and do a full, new assessment," he said.Although the 137-year-old dam is a scenic...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2012-08-22/savannah-rivers-oldest-dam-c
Albert Moody is an expert fisherman on the Savannah River

...and Stevens Creek-Deep Step sections. He started fishing the seven-mile stretch between the big dam and the Stevens Creek Dam just a few years ago.Albert is 6-foot-5 and weighs more than 500 pounds. He opted to fish worms for bream and...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/outdoors/fishing/2011-10-27/albert-moody-exp
Record fish is piscatorial hole-in-one for Vaughn Taylor

...was caught it not a historically productive striped bass venue."That part of the river, between Clarks Hill and Stevens Creek Dam, is cut off from the lower river, so any fish you find there have to be stocked or have escaped from reservoirs...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/2012-05-13/record-fish-piscatorial-hole-one-
Project expands horizon

...cigar-shape vessels to travel up into the segment of the Savannah River between the city's Diversion Dam and Stevens Creek Dam, a hydroelectric project upstream. "We think the boats can travel up into that area, but we probably won't...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2006-01-17/project-expands-horizon
Lazy outdoorsmen despoiling nature

...traverse it. What a wonderful resource we all have! Right in our backyard! I was in an area about a mile above the Stevens Creek dam this past weekend, and while paddling along the South Carolina bank came upon a point out in the river where the...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2008/11/21/let_484291.shtml
Letters
Crappies are starting to bite

...fisherman with lots of expertise, will report on fishing in the upper Savannah River below Strom Thurmond Dam to the Stevens Creek dam, as well as what's going on in the lake. - Thirty-five more boats are still needed by officials for the 14th...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2007/03/02/fis_118575.shtml
Fishing
There's hope to restore shad migration

...fish passage area at Augusta's Diversion Dam at the canal headgates and to the S.C. Electric & Gas Company's Stevens Creek Dam just upstream. "The area at issue is Thurmond Dam to Augusta, where there is just 2 percent of the remaining habitat...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2006/02/26/pav_59647.shtml
Rob Pavey | Natural history and anthropology
When lake brings no luck, head to the river

Consider this: The 13.6-mile stretch of the Savannah River between Thurmond and Stevens Creek dams contains the same species of fish that live in Thurmond Lake.Access ranges from the U.S. Forest Service ramp below the Fury's...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/outdoors/fishing/2010-12-23/when-lake-brings
Fishing | Outdoors | Sports
Savannah changes will come

...renovate the Augusta Diversion Dam downstream from Stevens Creek Dam. Any renovation likely would include fish ladders...New Savannah Bluff, Augusta's Diversion Dam and Stevens Creek Dam. A $70 million rehabilitation of Thurmond Dam includes...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2004/06/06/pav_418078.shtml
Rob Pavey
Developers seek rise in minimum levels of river

Minimum water levels in the Savannah River above Stevens Creek Dam could be raised about 2 feet under a proposal by developers...with those of South Carolina Electric & Gas Co.'s Stevens Creek Dam to stabilize water levels. The advantage, he said...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2004/05/28/met_417033.shtml
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