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Strawberry Reservoir is a large reservoir in the U.S. state of Utah, located on the Strawberry River. It is Utah's most popular fishery, receiving over 1.5 million angling hours annually and is part of the Blue Ribbon Fisheries program. Game fish in the reservoir include sterilized rainbow trout, bear lake cutthroat trout, kokanee salmon and ...
Constructed between 1970 and 1974, the dam replaced the earlier Strawberry Dam, built slightly upstream of the current site from 1911 to 1913. The new dam increased the storage capacity of Strawberry Reservoir from 283,000 acre-feet (0.349 km 3) to more than 1,120,000 acre-feet (1.38 km 3). [4]
The river flows south into Strawberry Reservoir, then through Soldier Creek Dam. The first 8 miles (13 km) below Soldier Creek Dam is owned by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation , and is one of Utah's most productive brown and cutthroat trout fisheries, and was one of the first waters in Utah to be designated a Quality Fishing Stream. [ 3 ]
Gleick pointed out that the Tulare Basin is experiencing drought conditions. Since October, the region has had nearly record-low precipitation. "It's possible that this summer, we're really going ...
Ninety-five million people across the northern U.S. from the plains to the Great Lakes as well as the Northeast are under winter weather alerts on Saturday as a blast of winter weather could foul ...
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Reservoir Reservoir capacity Capacity Annual generation Refs Blue Mesa Dam CO: Gunnison: USBR: Flood control Hydropower Regulation 1966 Blue Mesa Reservoir: 940,700 acre.ft (1,160,300 dam 3) 86.4: 203,412 [19] Dillon Dam CO: Blue: Denver Water: Irrigation Municipal 1963 Dillon Reservoir: 257,304 acre.ft (317,373 dam 3) 1.8? [20] [21] Flaming ...
The capacity of Strawberry Reservoir was enlarged from 273,000 acre-feet (337,000,000 m 3) to 1,106,500 acre-feet (1.3648 × 10 9 m 3) by the construction of Soldier Creek Dam on the Strawberry River. Some of the water stored in the reservoir is released to the Strawberry River to provide fishery flows, but most of the stored water is for trans ...