The Safe Harbor Water Power Corporation operates the dam and power plant. In May 2014, Brookfield purchased Exelon's share, gaining full ownership. LS Power Group purchased PPL's share in 2011 and was subsequently purchased in March 2014 by Brookfield Renewable Inc. Ecologically the varying depth of inundated islands on the bottom of the lake create a succession of valuable varied habitats that support numerous fresh water feeder fish, pan fish, and large predatory game fish species and so loss in bird-small animal habitat was replaced by and large, in freshwater marine habitats. The dam is located just above the confluence of the Conestoga River with the Susquehanna, about 7 miles downstream of Washington Boro, Pennsylvania, which at mid-river is figured more or less the center of Lake Clarke created by the dam – which has become very popular for water sports and fishing. The varied terrain created many interface zones biologically nurturing a great many species and many of those habitats effectively created difficult walking and horseback terrains which stifled east-west crossing of the lower Susquehanna in colonial Pennsylvania-Maryland spurring the 1730 opening of the historic Wright's Ferry and (later the first two) Columbia-Wrightsville Bridges, once believed to be the longest covered bridges in the world. The mixed marshy terrain of the Conejohela Valley contained rapids and small waterfalls, wetlands, and thick woods along both sides of the river within a ten-year floodplain which saw annual inundations all the way down into Maryland at the headwaters of Chesapeake Bay, and experienced catastrophic floods regularly (the meaning of a ten-year floodplain).
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