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Originally Posted by anthrax2244
When was Spruce Run made, and what was time table in years that it supported a decent brown trout fishery? I think Lebanon Bait and Sport had a few pics on the wall of browns caught there when I was a little guy in the early 90's...? Mark, you mentioned siltation, any idea how deep the inlet area from spruce run creek originally was? Past few years the whole area is bone dry hundreds of feet in.
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I was in the 4th grade when the dam was constructed
From Wikipedia.
Spruce Run Dam (National ID # NJ00132) was a 1964 project of the New Jersey Water Supply Authority with municipal water supply as its primary use. The earthen dam is 93 feet high, with a length of 5400 feet at its crest. The reservoir has a maximum capacity of 46,770
acre-feet and a normal capacity of 33,670 acre-feet.
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