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This enabled the near complete draining of both Tule and Lower Klamath Lakes. [114] Link River Dam (originally built as part of the Klamath Hydroelectric Project in 1921) controls the level of Upper Klamath Lake, creating the project's main storage reservoir. The dam did not actually raise the water level, but was built within an artificial cut ...
The Klamath River Hydroelectric Project was a series of hydroelectric dams and other facilities on the mainstem of the Klamath River, in a watershed on both sides of the California-Oregon border. The infrastructure was constructed between 1903 and 1962, the first elements engineered and built by the California Oregon Power Company ("Copco").
The John C. Boyle Dam is one of four on the Klamath River that was removed under the Klamath Economic Restoration Act. [5] As of February 2016, the states of Oregon and California, the dam owners, federal regulators and other parties reached an agreement to remove all four dams by the year 2020, pending approval by the Federal Energy Regulatory ...
The largest dam removal project in United States history is underway along the California-Oregon border. The project will remove four dams on the Klamath River. The project is part of a larger ...
But most of these dams were built between the 1930s and 1960s, and some are now beyond their useful lives. Today, we understand dams compromise entire ecosystems. We have better ways to reap the ...
Copco Number 1 Dam (National ID CA00323) is a gravity dam 415 feet (126 m) long and 132 feet (40 m) high, with 19.5 feet (5.9 m) of freeboard. PacifiCorp owned the dam prior to its transfer to the Klamath River Renewal Corporation in 2022. [18] The dam was demolished in September 2024 as part of the Klamath River Renewal Project. [19] [20]
Volpert made a map of access points, major rapids and other points of interest across about 45 miles of the “New Klamath” for anyone interested in floating the river.
Water was first made available May 22, 1907. The Clear Lake Dam was completed in 1910, the Lost River Diversion Dam and many of the distribution structures in 1912, and the Anderson-Rose Diversion Dam (formally Lower Lost River Diversion Dam) in 1921. The Malone Diversion Dam on Lost River was built in 1923 to divert water to Langell Valley.