U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

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Cicadas are fascinating insects known for their distinct buzzing and clicking sounds, which fill the air during the warmer months in many parts of the world. Belonging to the order Hemiptera, cicadas are part of the superfamily Cicadoidea.

The Cicada photo above was taken by me at West Point Lake, Lagrange, Georgia 05/02/2024 -The nearly dead bodies were raining down on the cabin deck where we were staying. The Cicada buzzing was the loudest we’d ever heard. West Point Lake, which is located in Troup and Harris counties, is a man-made reservoir located mostly in west-central Georgia on the Chattahoochee River and maintained by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers West Point Lake is on the Chattahoochee River just north of West Point, Georgia. It stretches 35 miles and at full pool is 25,900 acres. Authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1962, work started on the lake in December 1965 and the impoundment began in October 1974. With the exception of special situations, like a drought, the water is kept between 633 MSL (mean sea level – an average level of the surface of one or more of Earth’s bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured) and 635 MSL. The county seat of Troup, Lagrange, Georgia, just off I-85,. where I-185 heads south to Columbus, is 60 miles southwest of Atlanta and the closest major city to the lake.