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01000497 [1] Added to NRHP. May 10, 2001 [1] [2] River Mill Hydroelectric Project, also known as River Mill Dam and Station M, is a hydroelectric dam and powerhouse in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States. It is just north of Estacada, Oregon, on the Clackamas River at river mile 23.5 (km 37.8). It received its name from being near a sawmill ...
The River Coquet / ˈkoʊkət / runs through the county of Northumberland, England, discharging into the North Sea on the east coast at Amble. It rises in the Cheviot Hills on the border between England and Scotland, and follows a winding course across the landscape ("Coquetdale"). The upper reaches are bordered by the Otterburn Ranges military ...
30,849 cu ft/s (874 m 3 /s) The Willamette Falls is a natural waterfall on the Willamette River between Oregon City and West Linn, Oregon, in the United States. It is the largest waterfall in the Northwestern United States by volume, and the seventeenth widest in the world. [1] Horseshoe in shape, it is 1,500 feet (460 m) wide and 40 feet (12 m ...
April 13, 1977. Designated CP. November 13, 1984. The Great Stone Dam (also called the Lawrence Dam or Lawrence Great Dam) was built between 1845 and 1848 [2] on the site of Bodwell's Falls [3] on the Merrimack River in what became Lawrence, Massachusetts. The dam has a length of 900 feet (270 m) and a height of 35 feet (11 m).
The Clackamas River is an approximately 83-mile (134 km) tributary of the Willamette River in northwestern Oregon, in the United States. Draining an area of about 940 square miles (2,435 km 2 ), the Clackamas flows through mostly forested and rugged mountainous terrain in its upper reaches, and passes agricultural and urban areas in its lower ...
A second dam downstream allows some water from Mill Creek to flow into Garrison and Yellowhawk Creeks, which are used for irrigation in the Walla Walla Valley. In February 1996 Mill Creek experienced historic flooding from a rain-on-snow atmospheric river event. Bennington Lake filled to 97 percent and streamflows through Walla Walla slightly ...
The dam was built in 1958. Named for. North Fork Reservoir was named for the North Fork of the Clackamas that flows into the lake. Nearby dams. It is near River Mill Hydroelectric Project and Faraday Dam. Portland General Electric operates all dams and related infrastructure. Fishing. North Fork is a popular fishing area.
A mill dam (International English) or milldam (US) is a dam constructed on a waterway to create a mill pond. [1] Water passing through a dam's spillway is used to turn a water wheel and provide energy to the many varieties of watermill. By raising the water level so that the overflow has farther to fall, a milldam increases the potential energy ...