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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.
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.
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A fact from Dworshak Dam appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 27 June 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that the 1973 completion of the Dworshak Dam (pictured), one of the tallest in the United States, wiped out one of the world's preeminent runs of steelhead trout?