Northern water snake The belly also varies in color. It can be white, yellow, or gray. Usually it also has reddish or black crescents. The northern water snake is nonvenomous and harmless to humans, but superficially resembles the venomous cottonmouth and is often killed unnecessarily as a result of this mistaken identity. The two can be easily distinguished by morphological traits: the water snake has a longer, more slender body and a flattened head the same width as the neck, round pupils, and no heat-sensing pits. The cottonmouth has a fatter body, a wedge-shaped head with prominent venom glands that are wider than
Moccasin Dam to replace the original power plant. A March 2018 storm caused the Moccasin Reservoir to become overburdened with water and debris. The dam started to leak and evacuations were issued for a small number of houses and a campground downstream before water levels subsided. Moccasin Dam is a rockfill dam, with a structural height of and a length of , containing of material. The elevation at the dam crest is above sea level. The Moccasin Reservoir has a storage capacity of , and a surface area of . The reservoir has a natural catchment area of ; however, most of