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4,828 ft (1,472 m) Columbia River Basin. Lake Cascade (formerly Cascade Reservoir ), [ 1] is a reservoir in the western United States, on the North Fork of the Payette River in Valley County, Idaho. Located in the Boise National Forest, it has a surface area of 47 square miles (122 km 2 ), and is the fourth largest lake or reservoir in the state.
Installed capacity. 101 MW. Annual generation. 321,790,000 KWh. Columbia River Basin. Lucky Peak Dam is a rolled earth and gravel fill embankment dam in the western United States, located on the Boise River in southwestern Idaho. In Ada County east of Boise, it is directly downstream of Arrowrock Dam, a concrete arch dam completed in 1915. At ...
Water volume. 307,000 acre⋅ft (0.379 km 3) [1] Surface elevation. 3,050 ft (930 m) AMSL. Lucky Peak Reservoir (also known as Lucky Peak Lake [2]) is a reservoir on the Boise River in the U.S. state of Idaho. It is located mainly in Ada County, extending into Boise County and Elmore County. It was created in 1955 with the construction of Lucky ...
The dam was constructed as the principal feature of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's Palisades Project. The Palisades Project supplements the storage and power generation facilities of the earlier Minidoka and Michaud Flats projects, which serve irrigation interest in Idaho on the Snake River Plain, saving about 1,350,000 acre-feet (1.67 km 3) through the winter for use in the growing season.
Idaho is a Rocky Mountain state with abundant natural resources and scenic areas. The state has snow-capped mountain ranges, rapids, vast lakes and steep canyons. The waters of the Snake River run through Hells Canyon, the deepest gorge in the United States. Shoshone Falls falls down cliffs from a height greater than Niagara Falls .
Warm Lake is a 640-acre (260 ha) lake in Idaho, United States. [1] [2] It is located 26 miles (42 km) east of Cascade in Valley County, at 5,298 feet (1,615 m) above sea level. It is the largest natural lake in Boise National Forest. [3] The lake's abundance of wildlife makes it very popular for camping, fishing, and hunting.
The Boise River is a 102-mile-long (164 km) [ 2] tributary of the Snake River in the Northwestern United States. It drains a rugged portion of the Sawtooth Range in southwestern Idaho northeast of Boise, as well as part of the western Snake River Plain. The watershed encompasses approximately 4,100 square miles (11,000 km 2) of highly diverse ...
If you’re a sucker, like me, for mindless Google article suggestions, perhaps you noticed the latest bit of Boise glad-handing this week. Irresistible headline: “The 15 places to live in the ...