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The dams are components of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's Boise Project, and were designed to provide irrigation water to 500,000 acres (780 sq mi; 2,000 km 2) of Treasure Valley farmland in conjunction with the New York Irrigation District (New York Canal). The Boise River Diversion Dam also provides hydroelectric generation capacity. [1]
Mountain Home Irrigation District 1912 Little Wood River Dam: Little Wood River: Earthfill 169 52 Little Wood River Reservoir: 33,300 0.0411 3 USBR 1939 Lucky Peak Dam: Boise River: Earthfill 340 100 Lucky Peak Lake: 307,000 0.379 101 USACE 1955 Mackay Dam: Big Lost River: Earthfill 67 20 Mackay Reservoir: 45,000 0.056 0 Big Lost River ...
It was not the first irrigation system in the Boise Valley; in 1878, William H. Ridenbaugh began construction of the Ridenbaugh Canal from the north side of the Boise River, and smaller projects had existed beginning in the 1860s. [4] In the 1880s, work on the New York Canal focused mainly on the Foote survey and on acquiring water rights.
Country: United States: Location: Ada County, Idaho: Coordinates: 1]: Purpose: Flood control, irrigation: Construction began: 1949 (): Opening date: 1955; 70 years ago () [2]: Construction cost: $19 million (1955): Owner(s): U.S. Army Corps of Engineers [2]: Dam and spillways; Type of dam: Embankment dam: Impounds: Boise River: Height: 340 ft (104 m) [2]: Length: 2,340 ft (713 m) [2 ...
Boise has about 670 domestic wells, according to Haley Falconer, the environmental manager at Boise’s Department of Public Works. There are thousands in unincorporated Ada County, too.
In Southwestern Idaho, K-12 schools are often ran by school district models, including the Boise School District and Meridian School Districts. These aforementioned school districts had the highest amount of funding and reserve funds in the state for the 2020-21 school year, with the Meridian School District having over $376.5 million, and the ...
C. H. Tompkins, president of the New York-based Idaho Mining and Irrigation Co., and his engineer, A. D. Foote, first surveyed the Boise Valley for a canal in 1883, according to the Idaho State ...
Arrowrock Dam, 1925. In 1910, the Reclamation Service began to consider another storage facility farther east on the Boise River.After several surveys, engineers decided upon the Arrowrock site which had previously been the site of a private irrigation venture under the direction of Arthur De Wint Foote yet failed for lack of funding. [4]