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Prineville Reservoir has a maximum depth of 130 feet (40 m) and storage of just over 150,000 acre-feet (190,000,000 m 3) of water. The northeast end of Prineville Reservoir is a designated wildlife management area; these 3,800 acres (15 km 2) of both land and water provide a refuge for wildlife.
Its reservoir is called Prineville Reservoir. The dam was constructed by the United States Bureau of Reclamation in 1961, and is operated by the Ochoco Irrigation District. [3] The Crooked River wild and scenic area, which was designated by the Bureau of Land Management in 1988, passes through the center of Bowman Dam. Due to this designation ...
Two large reservoirs were built to supply irrigation water during the summer growing season: Prineville Reservoir on the Crooked River and Ochoco Reservoir on Ochoco Creek. Today, irrigation diversions during the summer remove most of the Crooked River's flow below Prineville. [5]
Drone footage shot by storm chaser Brandon Clement showed the improvement in water level and snowpack in places such as Folson Lake, Lake Oroville and Donner Pass, since last summer.
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.
Turbidity levels at the North Fork Reservoir are at 15.3, down only slightly from the Nov. 13 conditions, due to wind. ... the Water Resources Department was unable to treat raw reservoir water ...
The nearly 8100 major dams in the United States in 2006. The National Inventory of Dams defines a major dam as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3).
The Ochoco Dam is a dam in Central Oregon, 6 miles (9.7 km) east of Prineville in Crook County, Oregon, in the United States. The dam impounds Ochoco Creek to create Ochoco Reservoir. The reservoir holds 39,000 acre-feet (48,000,000 m 3) of water for irrigation and flood control, and is also used for fishing and boating. The former Ochoco Lake ...