*The Dam is being Inflated now for the summer. Planned repairs to the inflatable dam on the Susquehanna River will shorten the 2012 boating season at Shikellamy State Park, Sunbury, Northumberland County, the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) said today. The repair work on the Adam T. Bower Memorial Inflatable Dam is timed to take advantage of favorable weather and river-flow conditions as DCNR embarks on major construction at the 2,100 foot-long dam forming Lake Augusta. Replacement of one of the dam's seven inflatable bags, repairs to others, and construction of a temporary causeway will end Lake Augusta's boating season on Aug. 19, 2012. Normally, lake boating continues into the first week of October. *

I have added a few pictures of the Dam when work was being done on it a few years ago.

Adam T. Bower Memorial Dam A.K.A. The Fabridam.

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The Adam T. Bower Memorial Dam located at Sunbury, Pennsylvania is the Worlds Largest in length of its kind, spanning over 1800 feet in length. The dam consists of 6 rubber bags, each 300 feet in length, and 1 rubber bag 175 feet in length. Six concrete piers separate the bags along with 2 abutments, one on the eastern shoreline and the other on the western shoreline. The bags are anchored to a concrete foundation, which spans the total width of the river. When each bag is inflated they stand 8 feet in height. During the summer months between Memorial Day and Labor Day the dam is operational. The dam creates a 3,000 acre pool called Lake Augusta and maintains a depth of 8 to 12 feet. The shoreline extends over 30 miles around the lake, and spreads 6.5 miles up the West and North Branches of the Susquehanna River. The dam and lake are part of The Shikellamy State Park Complex. Shikellamy State Park is in Union and Northumberland counties and is broken up into 2 sections. The 78-acre Shikellamy Overlook section is on the western shore of the Susquehanna River and overlooks the confluence of the West and North Branches of the Susquehanna River. The 54-acre Shikellamy Marina section is in Northumberland County, between the Borough of Northumberland and the City of Sunbury on the southern tip of Packers Island, at the confluence of the West Branch and North Branch of the Susquehanna River.