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Year 1956 | Acres 800 (650 acres of lake and 150 acres of park and land buffer)
Starting Tuesday, June 14 Lake Wheeler Park will be open 7 days a week for regular operating hours.
Constructed in 1956 with the aid of the Army Corps of Engineers, Lake Wheeler once served as Raleigh's secondary auxiliary water-supply lake.
Beginning in 2010, Lake Wheeler was reinstated as a primary water supply for Raleigh and surrounding Wake County communities and feeds water to the Dempsey Benton Water Treatment Plant.