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Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Wisconsin.. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "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 Kilbourn Dam was the first major hydroelectric station on the Wisconsin River. [ 3] It was named for its location in the city of Kilbourn, which changed its name to Wisconsin Dells in 1931. The dam was designed by Daniel W. Mead [ 4] and built from 1906 to 1909 by the Southern Wisconsin Power Company, led by Magnus Swenson of Madison ...
The National Inventory of Dams (NID) is a congressionally authorized database documenting dams in the United States and its territories. [1] It is maintained and published by the US Army Corps of Engineers. [1] It contains information about each dam's location, size, purpose, type, last inspection and regulatory facts.
Madeline Heim is a Report for America corps reporter who writes about environmental issues in the Mississippi River watershed and across Wisconsin. Contact her at 920-996-7266 or mheim@gannett.com .
The Prairie du Sac Dam is the widest dam on the Wisconsin River [11] and has a generation capacity of about 31 MW. [13] The dam has a hollow concrete structure and is anchored to the sandy riverbed by a pile foundation. The hydroelectric power station is a 330-foot-long (100 m), three story red brick structure at the west end of the dam.
July 6, 2024 at 8:19 AM. MANAWA, Wis. (AP) — People living downriver of a Wisconsin dam that was breached by floodwaters have been allowed back into their homes following an evacuation order and ...
July 5, 2024 at 6:22 PM. Intense flooding breached a dam in eastern Wisconsin on Friday and eroded the land around it, prompting officials to temporarily evacuate residents who live downstream ...
Wisconsin electricity generation by type. This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, sorted by type and name.In 2019, Wisconsin had a total summer capacity of 15,312 MW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 66,774 GWh. [2]