On May 29, Stafford County alongside the Stafford sheriff’s office will hold a ceremony to dedicate the Lake Mooney Reservoir to the late Stafford Deputy Jason Mooney.
According to a release, Mooney was killed in an accident on I-95 after responding to an emergency call on duty in October 2007.
Mooney was a Colonial Forge High School graduate, a Marine, and a former Stafford firefighter, said a county release.
The Stafford County Board of Supervisors made the decision to name the reservoir after Mooney in 2014.
More on the plans for the reservoir, from the county:
The reservoir, formerly called Rocky Pen Run Reservoir, was approved by the Board of Supervisors in 1992 and later, permitted by the Army Corps of Engineers in 2006. The reservoir was created by the construction of a dam that rests 2,000 feet upstream at the mouth of Rocky Pen Run which is north of the Rappahannock River. Completed in 2014, Lake Mooney holds 5.54 billion gallons of water at full elevation within a surface area of 503 acres. The dam is 118 feet in height and 1,200 feet in length.
The ceremony, which begins at 10 a.m., is open to the public.
The lake will be opening on Memorial Day in 2016, and will have a boat launch and sites for canoeing and fishing.
