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
