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The Turtle-Flambeau Flowage was created in 1926 when the Chippewa and Flambeau Improvement Company built a dam on the Flambeau River downstream from its confluence with the Turtle River. The dam flooded 16 natural lakes and formed an impoundment of approximately 14,000 acres (57 km 2 ).
The other remaining tributaries of the Flambeau River are fairly small, but many support trout populations. [3] The Flambeau River rises in two major forks—the North Fork and the South Fork. Swamp Creek is located in the watershed of the North Fork, which is near the Turtle-Flambeau Flowage in Iron County. Swamp Creek is one of four other ...
While the South Fork is free-flowing below a small dam at the outlet of Round Lake, the North Fork and the main river have several dams that impound small reservoirs, known locally as flowages. Below the dam impounding the Turtle-Flambeau Flowage, the North Fork has three dams between Park Falls and Oxbo. On the main Flambeau below the Forks ...
Created Date: 8/30/2012 4:52:52 PM
The Turtle River is a river in Vilas County and Iron County in the state of Wisconsin in the United States. Its source is South Turtle Lake near Winchester. It flows into the Turtle-Flambeau Flowage.Little Turtle River Flowage is a 30 acre lake located in Iron County. It has a maximum depth of 4 feet.
Located at Waaswaagani-zaaga'igan (French: Lac du Flambeau; English: Torch Lake), the reservation of the Lac du Flambeau Band was established under the Treaty of 1854. The band had occupied this area since 1745, when it defeated the Sioux in the last battle between the peoples, driving them to the west. The Ojibwe had gradually migrated over ...
Homeless people who camp on public property in Portland, Oregon, and reject offers of shelter could be fined up to $100 or sentenced to up to seven days in jail under new rules approved ...
The basin that holds the Mondeaux Flowage, about three miles long and a quarter mile wide, [4] is probably a tunnel channel cut by a meltwater stream beneath the Chippewa Lobe of the last glacier. At some point, an esker formed down the middle of that channel and along the west edge. By early historic times, a stream (the Mondeaux River) flowed ...