Wyman Dam is a hydroelectric dam in

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. The dam was built in 1930 and connects the southwest corner of the town of

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with the southeast corner of Pleasant Ridge Plantation. Owned and operated by

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, one of six of their hydroelectric facilities on the

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, it's named in honor of Walter Wyman, the president of the original builder

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. The dam is partly earthen and partly concrete, with a height of and long at its crest. The dam's power plant houses three 24 MW turbine generators. Wyman Lake, the riverine reservoir formed by the dam, contains , among the largest lakes in Maine. Its normal surface area is over . It stretches northward from the dam, and forms the border between not only Moscow and Pleasant Ridge Plantation, but also between the town of Caratunk and Northwest Somerset.

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