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Map of the Salmon River drainage basin with tributaries. The Salmon River, also known as the "River of No Return", is a river located in the U.S. state of Idaho in the western United States. It flows for 425 miles (685 km) through central Idaho, draining a rugged, thinly populated watershed of 14,000 square miles (36,000 km 2).
Idaho Bureau of Indian Affairs 1911 Bliss Dam: Snake River: Concrete gravity 70 21 Bliss Reservoir: 11,000 0.014 75 Idaho Power 1950 Brownlee Dam† Snake River: Earthfill 420 130 Brownlee Reservoir: 1,426,700 1.7598 585.4 Idaho Power: 1958 C. J. Strike Dam: Snake River: Earthfill 115 35 C. J. Strike Reservoir: 247,000 0.305 82.8 Idaho Power ...
The Saint Joe River (sometimes abbreviated St. Joe River) is a 140-mile (225 km) long [3] tributary of Coeur d'Alene Lake in northern Idaho.Beginning at an elevation of 6,487 feet (1,977 m) [2] in the Northern Bitterroot Range of eastern Shoshone County, it flows generally west through the Saint Joe River Valley and the communities of Avery and Calder.
Anderson Ranch Dam is an earth rockfill type dam in the western United States, on the South Fork of the Boise River in southwestern Idaho.In Elmore County northeast of Mountain Home, it is several miles north of U.S. Route 20 and operated by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
The dam was constructed as the principal feature of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's Palisades Project. The Palisades Project supplements the storage and power generation facilities of the earlier Minidoka and Michaud Flats projects, which serve irrigation interest in Idaho on the Snake River Plain, saving about 1,350,000 acre-feet (1.67 km 3) through the winter for use in the growing season.
This year, the system has seen an 850,000-acre-foot increase in water flowing into the river from the aquifer, 300,000+ acre-feet in aquifer recharge, a 400-500 cubic-feet-per-second increase in ...
Lower Goose Creek Reservoir is a lake located 4,734 feet (1,443 m) above sea level, [1] south of the town of Oakley in Cassia County, Idaho, United States. [4] Oakley Dam impounds the reservoir's primary inflow, Goose Creek. All of the creek's water is stored in the reservoir for irrigation. [2]
If the amount of water available drops by 10% from its historical level, there are two basic ways to deal with that: 1. The farmer with the most junior water rights goes out of business (and the ...