The Blue Nile is the source of most of the water and fertile soil. It begins at Lake Tana in Ethiopia at 12Â°02â²09â³N 037Â°15â²53â³E / 12.03583Â°N 37.26472Â°E and flows into Sudan from the southeast. The two rivers meet near the Sudanese capital of Khartoum.
About Lake James. Located approximately 5 miles northeast of the city of Marion, North Carolina on NC 126, Lake James is at the base of the Linville Gorge. It is part of the North Carolina Park System and is surrounded by the Lake James State Park. Named for the founder of Duke Power and the benefactor of Duke University, James Buchanan Duke, Lake James was the result of a hydro-electric project developed by Duke Power between the years 1916-1923.
Falls Lake was created by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to help control flooding along the Neuse River. Construction of the dam began in 1978 and the lake was completed in 1981. Falls Dam is located north of Raleigh, NC at the small community of Falls in Wake County. The lake is named after the Falls of the Neuse, a location of rock water falls and cascades, now submerged by the lake. The dam impounds water approximately 28 miles upstream to the confluences of the Eno, Flat and Little River in Durham County.