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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 .
Aerial view of the Owyhee River in Oregon, and looking southeast into Idaho, with the Three Forks Recreation Site at left Jordan Creek is a 99-mile (159 km) tributary. [ 17 ] It flows generally west from near Silver City, Idaho , in the Owyhee Mountains to near Rome in the Oregon High Desert .
Owyhee Reservoir or Owyhee Lake is a reservoir on the Owyhee River in Malheur County, Oregon, United States. [2] Located in far Eastern Oregon near the Idaho border, the reservoir is Oregon's longest at 52 miles (84 km). [ 3 ]
The Owyhee River Wilderness is located on the high basalt plateaus of Owyhee County in southwestern Idaho in the western United States. The wilderness area is named after and protects the upper Owyhee River, its tributaries, and the surrounding desert canyon landscape. [1] Whitewater rafting is a popular recreational activity in this wilderness ...
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a reservoir east of Prineville, Oregon: Odell Lake: a mountain lake southeast of Willamette Pass: Olallie Lake: a mountain lake 10 miles (16 km) north of Mount Jefferson Oswego Lake: a natural lake (though artificially enlarged) that is a former channel of the Tualatin River: Owyhee Reservoir
Emergency officials warned in a 6 p.m. ET Facebook post that Lake Lure Dam water levels are now receding. Emergency personnel have rescued more than 25 people through "swift water rescue."
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Friday will enact its drought protocol. That means less water will be released to the Kansas River.