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Bliss Reservoir: 11,000 0.014 75 Idaho Power 1950 Brownlee Dam† Snake River: Earthfill 420 130 Brownlee Reservoir: 1,426,700 1.7598 585.4 Idaho Power: 1958 C. J. Strike Dam: Snake River: Earthfill 115 35 C. J. Strike Reservoir: 247,000 0.305 82.8 Idaho Power 1952 Cabinet Gorge Dam: Clark Fork: Concrete arch 111 34 Cabinet Gorge Reservoir ...
Below the dam, the South Fork flows northwestward into the reservoir behind the concrete Arrowrock Dam, completed in 1915. The Bureau of Reclamation and Idaho Water Resource Board are working on raising the dam by six feet (1.8 m), resulting in approximately 29,000 acre-feet (35,800,000 m 3 ) of new storage space. [ 4 ]
Dworshak Reservoir is the name of the lake formed behind the dam. At normal maximum water levels of 1,600 feet (490 m) above sea level, the reservoir stretches 53 miles (85 km) upstream, covering 17,090 acres (69.2 km 2) and containing 3,468,000 acre-feet (4.278 km 3) of water with 175 miles (282 km) of shoreline. [26]
The reservoir covers 1,392 acres (563 ha) and has a storage capacity of 45,050 acre-feet (0.05557 km 3; 14.68 × 10 ^ 9 US gal) of water. [5] It is stocked annually with fish by the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. [6] The reservoir sits between the Pioneer Mountains and the Lost River Range at the base of Mt. McCaleb.
The American Falls Dam is a concrete gravity-type dam in the western United States, located near American Falls, Idaho, on river mile 714.7 of the Snake River.The dam and reservoir are a part of the Minidoka Project on the Snake River Plain and are used primarily for flood control, irrigation, and recreation.
Deer Flat East Dike (ID #ID82902), completed 1911, 18 feet (5.5 m) high, 3,806 feet (1,160 m) long; The reservoir it creates, Lake Lowell, has a normal surface area of 16 square miles (41 km 2), and a maximum capacity of 169,000 acre-feet (208,000,000 m 3). [2] Its surface elevation is approximately 2,520 feet (770 m) above sea level.
Lower Goose Creek Reservoir is a lake located 4,734 feet (1,443 m) above sea level, [1] south of the town of Oakley in Cassia County, Idaho, United States. [4] Oakley Dam impounds the reservoir's primary inflow, Goose Creek. All of the creek's water is stored in the reservoir for irrigation. [2]
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.