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Byllesby Dam
Byllesby Dam
	Location of Byllesby Dam in Minnesota
Country	United States
Location	Dakota County and Goodhue County, Minnesota
Coordinates	44°30′42″N 92°56′24″W / 44.51180°N 92.94005°W
Status	Operational
Opening date	1910
Owner(s)	Dakota County, Minnesota
Dam and spillways
Type of dam	Concrete gravity dam
Impounds	Cannon River
Height	75-foot (23 m)
Reservoir
Creates	Lake Byllesby
Total capacity	20,000 acre-feet (25,000,000 m3)
Surface area	1,432 acres (580 ha)

Lake Byllesby Dam is a concrete gravity dam located in Randolph Township, Dakota County and Stanton Township, Goodhue County, Minnesota, just west of the city of Cannon Falls. It is approximately 30 miles (48 km) southeast of the Twin Cities.

The 75-foot (23 m)-high dam was built in 1910 by H.M. Byllesby & Company to impound the Cannon River for hydroelectric power. Its nameplate capacity is 1.8 MW.^[1]^[2] Byllesby, a former employee of both Edison and Westinghouse, formed what would become Northern States Power in 1909.^[3]

The dam created Lake Byllesby, with a surface area of 1,432 acres (580 ha) and a capacity of 20,000 acre-feet (25,000,000 m³).

The facility is owned and operated by Dakota County.

References

^ "Lake Byllesby". findlakes.com. Archived from the original on 2011-10-06.
^ "Home - Dam History". www.co.dakota.mn.us. Archived from the original on 2015-10-27.
^ "The Clarence Darrow Collection". Archived from the original on 2014-09-24. Retrieved 2012-07-29.

External links

[1] "Lake Byllesby". findlakes.com. Archived from the original on 2011-10-06.

[2] "Home - Dam History". www.co.dakota.mn.us. Archived from the original on 2015-10-27.

[3] "The Clarence Darrow Collection". Archived from the original on 2014-09-24. Retrieved 2012-07-29.

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