Seed Lake is a

reservoir A reservoir (; ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to water storage, store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation. Reservoirs are created by controlling a watercourse that drains an existing body of wa ...

with 13 miles (21 km) of shoreline located in Rabun County, in the northeastern corner of

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, United States. It is the second lake in a series of six lakes that follow the original riverbed of the

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. Each lake in the chain is created by

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operated by Georgia Power. Lake Seed is sandwiched between the northernmost lake in the series, Lake Burton, and

Lake Rabun Lake Rabun is a twisty reservoir with of shoreline located in the Northeastern corner of the U.S. state of Georgia in Rabun County. It is the third lake in a six-lake series that follows the original course of the Tallulah River. The series b ...

. Lake Rabun is followed by

Lake Tallulah Falls Tallulah Falls Lake is a reservoir with of shoreline located in the Northeastern corner of Georgia in Rabun County. It is the fourth and smallest lake in a six-lake series created by hydroelectric dams operated by Georgia Power that follows t ...

, Lake Tugalo, and Lake Yonah. The reservoir elevation is listed as on topographic maps, but Georgia Power considers the lake full at an elevation of . Seed Lake was formed in 1927 with the completion of the Nacoochee Dam, a gravity concrete and masonry dam that is high and spans . The associated Nacoochee Hydroelectric Plant has a capacity of 4,800 kilowatts. Nacoochee is derived from the

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word that means "evening star."

Sources

Georgia Power WebsiteTopoQuest Map of Lake SeedGeorgia Power lake levels
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Protected areas of Rabun County, Georgia

Georgia Power dams Bodies of water of Rabun County, Georgia