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Prairie du Sac Dam. 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 ...
Prairie du Sac Dam, Lake Wisconsin, Alliant Energy; Radisson Flowage Dam, 45.76093, -91.2025; Rainbow Dam, Rainbow Flowage, Wisconsin Valley Improvement Company; Rapide Croche Lock and Dam, unnamed reservoir on the Fox River, USACE; Red Cedar / Hemlock Lake Dam, 45.58977, -91.60194; Lake Redstone Dam, Lake Redstone, Sauk County
Downstream of the Prairie du Sac Dam at dam, the Wisconsin is un-dammed for 93 miles (150 km) to its confluence with the Mississippi, one of the longest such stretches in the eastern United States. It is a popular canoe and small craft recreational area. Most of its course is within the Lower Wisconsin State Riverway founded in 1998.
It was formed by the construction of the Prairie du Sac Dam, which was begun in 1911 and completed in 1914. It is part of the Wisconsin River system of reservoirs. The lake has a maximum depth of 24 feet (7.3 m). [2] It has an area of 7,197 acres (29.13 km 2). [2]
Prairie du Sac named because the area was in the large Wisconsin River Valley where the Sauk Indians had a large settlement. [7] Although the name of the village dates from the early days of French fur traders, Prairie du Sac was established as a village by D.B. Crocker in 1840, largely as a Yankee-English village, [8] in contrast to its neighbor, Sauk City, which was settled largely by Germans.
US 151 – Sun Prairie, Beaver Dam: WIS 73 (Ludington Street) to WIS 89: Dodge: Town of Clyman: WIS 16 east / WIS 26 – Watertown, Juneau: Eastern end of WIS 16 concurrency; interchange: Town of Rubicon: WIS 67 – Mayville, Oconomowoc: Washington: Hartford: WIS 83 (Main Street) Northern terminus of WIS 83: Slinger: WIS 175 – Slinger ...
Town of Prairie du Sac: Bus. US 12 east / CTH-Z (Prairie Road) – Prairie du Sac: 235.4: 378.8: WIS 60 west – Spring Green: Western end of WIS 60 overlap: Sauk City: 237.1: 381.6: WIS 60 east / WIS 78 north / Bus. US 12 west – Prairie du Sac: Eastern end of WIS 60 overlap; northern end of WIS 78 overlap: Dane: Town of Roxbury: 237.6: 382.4
Sauk Prairie is the nickname for the adjacent villages of Sauk City and Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin. The twin communities are located on the west bank of the Wisconsin River in southeastern Sauk County, where U.S. Highway 12 crosses the Wisconsin River. As of the 2020 census, the combined population of the two communities was 7,938. [citation needed]