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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]
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 .
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 1952 Cabinet Gorge Dam: Clark Fork: Concrete arch 111 34 Cabinet Gorge Reservoir ...
At river mile 247, the dam impounds Hells Canyon Reservoir; its spillway elevation is 1,680 feet (512 m) above sea level. It is the third and final hydroelectric dam of the Hells Canyon Project, which includes Brownlee Dam (1959) and Oxbow Dam (1961), all built and operated by Idaho Power Company .
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).
Here the river turns again sharply east-southeast, flowing through Thief Valley Reservoir, in a valley along the southern edge of the Wallowa Mountains. The river then transits the Lower Powder Valley and enters the Snake River on the Idaho–Oregon state line from the west, upstream from the Brownlee Dam at the Powder Arm of Brownlee Reservoir ...
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 ]
Oregon Route 86 is an Oregon state highway running from Interstate 84 at Baker City to the Idaho state line at Oxbow (near the former site of Copperfield). OR 86 comprises most of the Baker-Copperfield Highway No. 12 (see Oregon highways and routes). It is 67.82 miles (109.15 km) long and runs east–west.