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The Boise basin’s snow water equivalent — the measurement used for the amount of water contained within a snowpack — is at 87% of its median level, according to the latest Idaho SNOTEL ...
The dams are components of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's Boise Project, and were designed to provide irrigation water to 500,000 acres (780 sq mi; 2,000 km 2) of Treasure Valley farmland in conjunction with the New York Irrigation District (New York Canal). The Boise River Diversion Dam also provides hydroelectric generation capacity. [1]
The Boise River rises in three separate forks in the Sawtooth Range at elevations exceeding 10,000 feet (3,050 m), and is formed by the confluence of its North and Middle forks. The North Fork, 50 miles (80 km) long, [ 2 ] rises in the Sawtooth Wilderness Area , along the Boise – Elmore county line, 60 miles (100 km) northeast of Boise.
Managers must balance flood risks with storing water for irrigation, and they are “constantly coming up with better ways to forecast snowpack.”
Conditions are considered “life-threatening” in the water, the Boise Fire Department said. Boise River conditions now ‘extremely dangerous.’ Public urged to avoid water
Anderson Ranch Dam is an earth rockfill type dam in the western United States, on the South Fork of the Boise River in southwestern Idaho.In Elmore County northeast of Mountain Home, it is several miles north of U.S. Route 20 and operated by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
A nesting bald Eagle, a beloved local winery and over 30 neighbors may jeopardize a proposal to open a 260-acre surface mine along the Boise River.
Arrowrock Dam, 1925. In 1910, the Reclamation Service began to consider another storage facility farther east on the Boise River.After several surveys, engineers decided upon the Arrowrock site which had previously been the site of a private irrigation venture under the direction of Arthur De Wint Foote yet failed for lack of funding. [4]