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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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The Owyhee project received official Congressional sanction in 1924 on December 5 and the Owyhee Dam was completed on September 16, 1932. [5] While the dam was under construction, over 98.5 miles (159 km) of irrigation canals were being dug to the north and south. The main purpose of the Owyhee Project was irrigation.
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[2] 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). [3]
The mean annual discharge is 995 cubic feet per second (28.2 m 3 /s), with a maximum of 50,000 cu ft/s (1,400 m 3 /s) recorded in 1993 and a minimum of 42 cu ft/s (1.2 m 3 /s) in 1954. [6] The Owyhee drains a remote area of the arid plateau region immediately north of the Great Basin of Central Nevada, rising in northeastern Nevada and flowing ...
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