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November 30
Lake Greenwood water levels are down to 437.06 (full pool is 440.0) and up the lake the water is dingy. Morning surface water temperatures are in the upper 50s.
November 16
Lake Greenwood water levels are down to 438.08 (full pool is 440.0) and visibility is high. Morning surface water temperatures are in the lower 60s.
November 9
Lake Greenwood water levels are at 438.57 (full pool is 440.0) and the lake is pretty clear although the upper lake has some stain. Morning surface water temperatures are in the low to mid-60s.
November 2
Lake Greenwood water levels are at 438.78 (full pool is 440.0) and the lake is pretty clear although the upper lake has some stain. Morning surface water temperatures have dropped all the way into the lower 60s.
October 26
Lake Greenwood water levels are at 438.85 (full pool is 440.0) and the lake is pretty clear although the upper lake has some stain. Morning surface water temperatures are down to the upper 60s.
October 19
Lake Greenwood water levels are at 438.85 (full pool is 440.0) and the lake is pretty clear although the upper lake has some stain. Morning surface water temperatures are down to up the upper 60s.
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Lake Greenwood is located near the towns of Greenwood and Ninety Six, about an hour to the northwest of Columbia and around forty-five minutes to the southeast of Greenville. The waters of the Saluda and Reedy Rivers come from the northwest and feed into Lake Greenwood, which was created between 1935 and 1940 with the construction of Buzzard’s Roost Dam.
Lake Greenwood has 212 miles of shoreline and 11,400 surface acres of water, and today it is owned by Greenwood County. A relatively shallow lake, Lake Greenwood averages 18 feet deep and is 60 feet deep at its deepest point. The Greenwood County Lake Management Department controls permitting, camping, upkeep and maintenance on the lake, and the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources helps to manage the fishery resource.
Fishermen target Lake Greenwood’s healthy populations of largemouth and now spotted bass, black and white crappie, bream and catfish, and channel and flathead catfish. DNR also stocks striped bass in the lake, although not in the quantities which they put into Lake Murray, Clarks Hill and other major striper fisheries. White bass are also present in Greenwood, although they are increasingly being displaced by the white perch population. The most significant forage fish on Lake Greenwood are threadfin and gizzard shad.
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