Explosive Development: AL Dam Maintenance Divers Find Something Besides Gators in the Water

<![CDATA[The J. B. Converse Reservoir, situated 18 miles on the west side of Mobile, Alabama, is one of those ubiquitous Southern water projects that bloomed all over in the fifties. Soggy swampland that the area is, there was a need for a contained and regulated water source for the rapidly growing city on Mobile Bay. In 1952, an earthen dam, 5,000 feet long by 75 feet high, was built across Big Creek, the largest single tributary within the watershed, which is itself a tributary of the Escatawpa River (water, water everywhere). Hence, the reservoir that formed is also known as  'Big Creek Lake.' ]]>