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The 1992 powerplant has 46 and 11.5 MW generators, with a small 800 KW generator for low-flow conditions. Water for the powerplant is drawn from the Twin Falls Canal during seasons when water is not needed for irrigation. [4] Milner Dam was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 10, 1986. [2]
Little Willow Irrigation District 1949 Ririe Dam: Willow Creek: Earthfill 253 77 Ririe Reservoir: 100,500 0.1240 0 USBR 1977 Oxbow Dam† Snake River: Rockfill 175 53 Oxbow Reservoir: 58,200 0.0718 190 Idaho Power 1961 Palisades Dam: Snake River: Earthfill 270 82 Palisades Reservoir: 1,200,000 1.5 176.5 USBR 1957 Post Falls Dam: Spokane River ...
Twin Falls is the county seat and largest city of Twin Falls County, Idaho, United States. [4] The city had a population of 51,807 as of the 2020 census. [5] In the Magic Valley region, Twin Falls is the largest city in a 100-mile (160 km) radius, and is the regional commercial center for south-central Idaho and northeastern Nevada. [6]
The falls are upstream (east) of Pillar Falls and Shoshone Falls and just downstream from Milner Dam. Water flows westward over Twin Falls and is controlled by the Twin Falls Dam, built in the 1930s and used for irrigation and hydroelectric power generation. There were originally two parallel falls, but the dam permanently diverted the flow ...
Magic Valley Court, a motel near Twin Falls.. The name "Magic Valley" is a reference to the construction of Milner and Minidoka Dams and a series of irrigation canal systems (such as the Gooding Milner canal) on the Snake River during the first decade of the 20th century.
Salmon Falls Dam is a dam constructed across Salmon Falls Creek in Twin Falls County, Idaho, in the United States.Located about 28 miles (45 km) southwest of Twin Falls, the masonry arch-gravity dam is 217 feet (66 m) high and 450 feet (140 m) long, impounding up to 230,650 acre-feet (0.28450 km 3) of water in Salmon Falls Creek Reservoir. [1]
Jun. 14—The Talent Irrigation District will shut down its entire irrigation system for at least two weeks in a bid to save scarce water during the ongoing drought. "We're going to do our best.
Jerome County is a county in the U.S. state of Idaho.As of the 2020 Census the county had a population of 24,237. [1] The county seat and largest city is Jerome. [2] The county was created by the Idaho Legislature on February 8, 1919, from a partition of Lincoln County.