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Lake Chelan Dam officially known as the Lake Chelan Hydroelectric Project is located approximately 32 miles (51 km) north of the city of Wenatchee in Chelan County.The dam is located at the lower or southeasterly end of 50.4 miles (81.1 kilometres) [5] long Lake Chelan, and is within the limits of the city of Chelan.
Lake Chelan (/ ʃ ə ˈ l æ n / shə-LAN) is a narrow, 50.5 mi (81.3 km) long lake in Chelan County, north-central Washington state, U.S. [1] It is an overdeepened lake and resembles a fjord, with an average width of 1.3 mi (2.1 km). Near its upper end, the lake surface lies more than 6,600 ft (2,000 m) below peaks less than 3 mi (4.8 km) away.
The Chelan River originates at the outlet of Lake Chelan, in the city of Chelan at the southern end of the lake. Lake Chelan Dam, also in the city of Chelan, blocks the river. The dry riverbed runs 3.9 miles (6.3 km) through a steep and rocky gorge, dropping 401 feet (122 m) before reaching the Columbia River near the community of Chelan Falls.
Lake Chelan Dam: Chelan: Chelan River: Lake Chelan [n 6] Gravity 59.2: 40 12 677,400 835,600 1927 Chelan County Public Utility District: Hydroelectric Lake Tapps (Multiple dikes) Pierce: Off-stream Lake Tapps: Earthfill 48,258 59,525 1911 Cascade Water Alliance: Recreation, Water supply (proposed) Little Goose Dam: Columbia/ Whitman: Snake ...
Chelan: 48 5 Clallam: 49 6 Clark: 45 7 Columbia: 20 8 Cowlitz: 32 9 Douglas: 25 10 Ferry: 13 11 Franklin: 16 12 Garfield: 3 13 Grant: 11 14 Grays Harbor: 22 15 Island: 16 16 Jefferson: 80 17.1 King: Seattle: 222 17.2 King: Other: 93 17.3 King County: Total 315 18 Kitsap: 21 19 Kittitas: 25 20 Klickitat: 12 21 Lewis: 41 22 Lincoln: 11 23 Mason ...
Chelan County PUD owns and operates the nation's second largest nonfederal, publicly owned hydroelectric generating system. Two of the District's hydropower stations, Rocky Reach Dam and Rock Island Dam, are part of an 11-dam system on the U.S. portion of the Columbia River, which is fed by the fourth largest drainage system in North America.
The largest dam removal project in U.S. history has freed the Klamath River, ... The draining of reservoirs on the Klamath River has left a dry lake bed beside a flowing creek.
September 17, 1974 (About 11.2 miles (18.0 km) southwest of Cashmere, in Wenatchee National Forest: Cashmere: 3: Bridge Creek Cabin-Ranger Station: February 10, 1989 (In Bridge Creek Campground, southwest of Stehekin Valley Trail, about 13 miles (21 km) northwest of Stehekin, in North Cascades National Park