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For the third time this summer, high levels of toxin-producing bacteria in water have prompted a public health advisory in Idaho, and the popular destination this time is Brownlee Reservoir along ...
Brownlee Dam is a hydroelectric earth fill embankment dam in the western United States, on the Snake River along the Idaho-Oregon border (Washington County, Idaho in and Baker County in Oregon). In Hells Canyon at river mile 285, it impounds the Snake River in the 58-mile-long (93 km) Brownlee Reservoir .
The Powder River watershed drains 1,603 square miles (4,150 km 2) of northeastern Oregon. [3] There are three man-made reservoirs on the Powder River: Phillips Reservoir (behind Mason Dam), Thief Valley Reservoir, and also the Powder arm of Brownlee Reservoir at the Oregon–Idaho border at the confluence of the Powder and Snake Rivers.
Brownlee is an unincorporated community in Baker County, Oregon, United States. [1] John Brownlee started a ferry service that crossed the Snake River between Idaho and Oregon and became known as Brownlee's Ferry. When a railroad was built on the Oregon side of the river, the station at the ferry crossing was named Brownlee. [2] Brownlee post ...
Twenty rural Oregon lawmakers have asked a federal judge to modify a ruling that has impacted drinking water, wildlife and dried-up wells near Green Peter and Lookout Point reservoirs.. A letter ...
Mason Dam is a dam near Baker City, Oregon, in Baker County, of the north-eastern part of the state. Mason Dam is a water conservation project of the United States Bureau of Reclamation, an earthen and rockfill dam originally constructed from 1965 through 1968. [1] Owned by the Bureau, it is operated by the local Baker Valley Irrigation District.
The reservoir is a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers flood control project encompassing more than 12,000 acres (49 km 2) and is a popular site for boating, fishing, and birdwatching. [ 2 ] Surrounding portions of the reservoir is the Fern Ridge Wildlife Area , a wildlife management area providing a unique habitat for a variety of species including ...
A total of 1,050 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes raked Oregon late Tuesday, igniting numerous small fires statewide. Oregon wildfires: Round Butte Fire brings level 3 'go now' evacs to Wickiup ...