Report details benefits if state takes control of Alcoa-operated dams on Yadkin

  • By Nathan Hardin

    nhardin@salisburypost.com

  • Thursday, February 7th, 2013
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Jon C. Lakey/Salisbury Post file photo A worker looks over the top of Alcoa-owned Narrows Dam with the Narrows Reservoir/Badin Lake 216 feet above Falls Reservoir below. The dam was built in 1917 to supply power to the aluminum smelting plant located nearby in Badin.

Jon C. Lakey/Salisbury Post file photo A worker looks over the top of Alcoa-owned Narrows Dam with the Narrows Reservoir/Badin Lake 216 feet above Falls Reservoir below. The dam was built in 1917 to supply power to the aluminum smelting plant located nearby in Badin.