Shadow Lake Dam is a dam on Nut Swamp Brook in

Monmouth County, New Jersey Monmouth County () is a county located on the coast of central New Jersey. The county is part of the New York metropolitan area and is situated along the northern half of the Jersey Shore. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the county's population w ...

. Built in 1931, it has a length of and is high. The dam impounds Shadow Lake. It has a main overflow

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, an earthfill

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and an emergency spillway on the right. It has a discharge capacity of 1,912 cubic feet per second. Hubbard Road ( County Route 12) crosses over its crest.

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