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Owyhee Dam (National ID # OR00582) is a concrete arch-gravity dam on the Owyhee River in Eastern Oregon near Adrian, Oregon, United States. Completed in 1932 during the Great Depression , the dam generates electricity and provides irrigation water for several irrigation districts in Oregon and neighboring Idaho .
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Owyhee Reservoir or Owyhee Lake is a reservoir on the Owyhee River in Malheur County, Oregon, United States. [2] Located in far Eastern Oregon near the Idaho border, the reservoir is Oregon's longest at 52 miles (84 km). [ 3 ]
The Owyhee River enters the Snake River from the west on the Oregon–Idaho border approximately 5 miles (8 km) south of Nyssa, Oregon, and 2 miles (3 km) south of the mouth of the Boise River. The final stretch of the river, below Owyhee Dam, emerges from the Owyhee Plateau and enters the Snake River Plain.
The nearly 8100 major dams in the United States in 2006. The National Inventory of Dams defines a major dam as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3).
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Friday will enact its drought protocol. That means less water will be released to the Kansas River.
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The Little Owyhee River is a 61-mile (98 km) long [3] tributary of the South Fork Owyhee River. Beginning at an elevation of 6,739 feet (2,054 m) [ 2 ] east of the Santa Rosa Range in eastern Humboldt County, Nevada , it flows generally east into Elko County, Nevada and the Owyhee Desert .