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Dworshak Dam is a concrete gravity dam in the western United States, on the North Fork of the Clearwater River in north central Idaho. In Clearwater County, the dam is located approximately four miles (6 km) northwest of Orofino and impounds the Dworshak Reservoir for flood control and hydroelectricity generation. By capacity, the reservoir is ...
English: Location map of Idaho, USA. Geographic limits of the map: N: 49.2° N; ... Dworshak Dam; Eagle Island State Park (Idaho) ExtraMile Arena; Farragut State Park;
Dworshak State Park is a public recreation area covering 850 acres (340 ha) along the western shore of Dworshak Reservoir north of Orofino in Clearwater County, Idaho, United States. The state park comprises three units: Freeman Creek, Three Meadows Group Camp, and Big Eddy Lodge and Marina. There are opportunities for boating, fishing, camping ...
Anderson Ranch Reservoir: 503,500 0.6211 40 USBR 1950 Black Canyon Diversion Dam: Payette River: Concrete gravity 183 56 Black Canyon Reservoir: 31,200 0.0385 10 USBR 1924 Arrowrock Dam: Boise River: Concrete arch 350 110 Arrowrock Reservoir: 300,850 0.37109 0 USBR 1915 Blackfoot Dam: Blackfoot River: Earthfill 55 17 Blackfoot Reservoir ...
The Dworshak Reservoir is the only major lake on the Clearwater system, created from the Dworshak Dam, completed in the early 1970s. Dworshak Dam is on the North Fork of the Clearwater River and is just northwest of Orofino. There is no fish ladder; the dam blocks salmon and steelhead passage.
The North Fork Clearwater River is a major tributary of the Clearwater River in the U.S. state of Idaho. [1] From its headwaters in the Bitterroot Mountains of eastern Idaho, it flows 135 miles (217 km) [2] westward and is dammed by the Dworshak Dam just above its mouth in north-central Idaho.
Some four miles (6 km) north is the Dworshak Dam, third-highest dam in the United States, completed in the early 1970s. Nearby is the Dworshak National Fish Hatchery, started to try to compensate for the loss of migratory fish upstream after the dam was constructed.
The only reasonable answer was a bridge somewhere in the middle of the future reservoir. The exact location was based on the topography most suitable for road access as well as for the bridge construction itself. The bridge takes its name from Charles and Katherine Dent, who in 1895 owned land on the western side of where the bridge now stands.