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Brownlee Dam is a hydroelectric earth fill embankment dam in the western United States, on the Snake River along the Idaho-Oregon border (Washington County, Idaho in and Baker County in Oregon). In Hells Canyon at river mile 285, it impounds the Snake River in the 58-mile-long (93 km) Brownlee Reservoir .
Brownlee is an unincorporated community in Baker County, Oregon, United States. [1] John Brownlee started a ferry service that crossed the Snake River between Idaho and Oregon and became known as Brownlee's Ferry. When a railroad was built on the Oregon side of the river, the station at the ferry crossing was named Brownlee. [2]
Completed 64 years ago in 1961, [1] the dam is part of the Hells Canyon Project that also includes Hells Canyon Dam and Brownlee Dam, all built and operated by Idaho Power Company. The dam's powerhouse contains four generating units with a total nameplate capacity of 190 megawatts (250,000 hp).
The townsite is now under the water of the Brownlee Reservoir, which was created by the damming of the Snake River by the Brownlee Dam in 1958. [3] Before the flooding, the Robinette Store was moved to Richland , where it still stands today. [ 6 ]
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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 ]
Brownlee is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Cherry County, Nebraska, United States. [2] As of the 2010 census it had a population of 15. [ 4 ] It is located on the North Loup River, 5 miles (8 km) west of U.S. Route 83 in the Sandhills region of the state.
Meant primarily to generate hydroelectricity, the reservoir can hold up to 4,200 acre-feet (5,200,000 m 3) of water. [1] Originally called Big Bend Reservoir, it was renamed in 1962 for John C. Boyle, COPCO's vice president, general manager, and chief engineer. [7] The Boyle dam was one of four Klamath River dams to be removed in the 2020s. [8]