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Haystack Dam (National ID # OR00287) is a dam in central Oregon, about ten miles south of Madras.. The earthen dam was constructed in 1957 by the United States Bureau of Reclamation, with a height of 105 feet and 1200 feet long at its crest. [1]
The dam is owned by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. [1] Link River Dam's reservoir, Klamath Lake, has a capacity of 873,000 acre-feet (1.077 × 10 9 m 3). The project provides flood control, generates hydro power, and stores most of the water used for irrigation in the Klamath Reclamation Project. The dam is 22 feet (7 m) high and 435 feet (133 ...
The Grants Pass Irrigation District was organized by water users in January 1917, and it then contained about 6,000 acres (24 km 2) of land.In 1920, a diversion dam design was adopted to provide for a direct diversion system with permanent pumping units at a site on the Rogue River about five miles (8 km) east of the town of Grants Pass, Oregon.
Bureau of Reclamation regions. Following is a complete list of the approximately 340 dams owned by the United States Bureau of Reclamation as of 2008. [1]The Bureau was established in July 1902 as the "United States Reclamation Service" and was renamed in 1923.
Unfortunately, for those hoping the rain would build up Oregon’s early-season snowpack, this system is a warm one and snow levels are expected to rocket up as high as 9,000 feet, Bryant said ...
Urness is the author of “Best Hikes with Kids: Oregon” and “Hiking Southern Oregon.” He can be reached at zurness@StatesmanJournal.com or (503) 399-6801. Find him on Twitter at ...
Oregon shattered its record for acres burned in a single season earlier this summer, but fire season has also lasted longer than normal. Oregon rain and mountain snow is forecast this week. Will ...
The Klamath River Hydroelectric Project was a series of hydroelectric dams and other facilities on the mainstem of the Klamath River, in a watershed on both sides of the California-Oregon border. The infrastructure was constructed between 1903 and 1962, the first elements engineered and built by the California Oregon Power Company ("Copco").