Foster Joseph Sayers Dam
Dam in Centre County, Pennsylvania · Bald Eagle Creek · forms Blanchard Reservoir
Height
100 ft
30 m (NID height)
Length
6,835 ft
2,083 m
Completed
1969
Blanchard Reservoir today
630.06 ft
7 days ▼ 0.03 ft
vs full pool
▲ 0.06 ft
Normal storage
28,800 acre-ft
Normal for the date
Reservoir level measured Oct 23, 2026, 3:00 PM EDT. Full level page →
Facts
- Purposes
- Flood Risk Reduction; Other; Recreation
- Dam type
- Earth
- Structural height
- 100 ft
- Owner
- USACE - Baltimore District (Federal)
- Maximum storage
- 186,000 acre-ft
- Surface area
- 1,730 acres
- Hydraulic height
- 95 ft
- Drainage area
- 339 sq mi
- Spillway
- Uncontrolled, 600 ft wide
- Army Corps district
- Baltimore District
- Also known as
- Blanchard Reservoir
- NID ID
- PA00005
Facts from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers National Inventory of Dams, record updated Oct 7, 2026. Search NID ID PA00005 at nid.sec.usace.army.mil. Project website.
Other dams at Blanchard Reservoir
- Foster Joseph Sayers Dam - Howard Levee