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| location = [[Fairfax County, Virginia]]
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| inflow = [[Pohick Creek]]
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'''Lake Braddock''' is a [[reservoir]] in the community of [[Burke, Virginia|Burke]] in [[Fairfax County, Virginia|Fairfax County]], [[Virginia]], United States. Lake Braddock is created by an impoundment on a tributary stream of [[Pohick Creek]], itself a tributary of the [[Potomac River]].
In 1969, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors and the Northern Virginia Soil District signed contracts which allowed the construction of the dam impounding the tributary of the Pohick creek in Burke.<ref name="WaPo1969">{{Cite news|title = Pact Signed for Pohick Watershed Dam|date = 16 May 1969|newspaper = The Washington Post|id = {{ProQuest|147683153}}}}</ref> The $138,500 cost of the dam, intended as the first of eight to control [[soil erosion]] and flooding in the Pohick watershed, was split between the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Yeonas Development Corporation, the latter of which intended to build a 1000-unit development on the surrounding 400 acres.<ref name="WaPo1969" />
The ultimate cost of the dam creating the 19-acre lake was $93,000 to the U.S. Government and $104,000 to Yeonas.<ref name=WaPo1971>{{cite news|title=U.S. Funded Lakes Closed to Public, Hill Report Says|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=26 October 1971|id={{ProQuest|148154962}}}}</ref>
The fact that the lake included no public recreation facilities despite being financed with public money was the subject of controversy, and led to the amendment of the [[Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act of 1954|Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act]] in 1972 to require public access to all such facilities constructed in the future.<ref name="WaPo1971" /><ref>{{Cite news|title = U.S. Expands Public's Use Of Reservoirs|last = Edwards|first = Paul G.|date = 24 April 1972|newspaper = The Washington Post|id = {{ProQuest|148338665}}}}</ref>
==References==
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{{Potomac River System}}
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[[Category:Chesapeake Bay watershed|Braddock]]
[[Category:Protected areas of Fairfax County, Virginia]]
[[Category:Reservoirs in Virginia|Braddock]]
[[Category:Potomac River watershed|Braddock]]
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