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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 .
Due to sedimentation and other factors that affect a reservoir's storage capacity over time, some data listed might not accurately reflect actual current conditions in certain reservoirs. For example, Lake Mead – the largest reservoir in the U.S. – could store more than 32.4 million acre-feet (40.1 km 3 ) when first filled, but sediment ...
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 ...
Drone footage shot by storm chaser Brandon Clement showed the improvement in water level and snowpack in places such as Folson Lake, Lake Oroville and Donner Pass, since last summer.
Signs indicate that a boat ramp is closed due to low water levels in Lake Mead near Las Vegas, Nevada, on June 10, 2021, where the water level has fallen to its lowest since the reservoir was ...
Here the river turns again sharply east-southeast, flowing through Thief Valley Reservoir, in a valley along the southern edge of the Wallowa Mountains. The river then transits the Lower Powder Valley and enters the Snake River on the Idaho–Oregon state line from the west, upstream from the Brownlee Dam at the Powder Arm of Brownlee Reservoir ...
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The migrating Continental Divide tilted the regional slope such that drainage flowed west into Lake Idaho, whose water levels saw a significant increase about 4.5 Ma. [76] [79] The Snake River Plain drainage system continued to expand east, towards what is now Yellowstone National Park.