Warm Springs Reservoir
The 106-foot-tall (32 m) and 469-foot-long (143 m) thin-arch concrete Warm Springs Dam was built from 1918 to 1919 by the Warm Springs Irrigation District, and was later modified in 1930 and 1939 with the help of the United States Bureau of Reclamation. It was constructed from 19,500 cubic yards (14,900 m) of material on top of a series of olivine basalt lava flows. The resultant 8.5-by-1.3-mile (14 by 2.1 km) reservoir has a maximum area of 4,194 acres (1,697 ha), a maximum volume of 169,714 acre-feet (209,339 dam), and a maximum depth of 140 feet (42.7 m). It has a shore length of about 34.5 miles (55.5 km) and a residence time of about 2.2 years.
Warm Springs Reservoir's watershed covers approximately 1,059.5 square miles (2,744.1 km) of eastern Oregon. It receives an average precipitation of 17.5 inches (444 mm). As of the 2000 Census, there were 157 people living within the watershed's boundaries.
The predominant wildlife in the region is mule deer and various waterfowl. Bass, bluegill, and rainbow trout are the main fish found in the reservoir. The reservoir is classified as eutrophic, with a transparency of about 3.3 feet (1.0 m).
See also
References
- ^ "Warm Springs Reservoir Basin Statistics" (PDF). Atlas of Oregon Lakes. Retrieved January 13, 2013.
- ^ Ferrari, Ronald L. "Warm Springs Reservoir 2000 Reservoir Survey" (PDF). United States Bureau of Reclamation. Retrieved March 25, 2011.
- ^ Johnson, Daniel M. (1985). Atlas of Oregon Lakes (PDF). Corvallis: Oregon State University Press. p. 293. ISBN 9780870713422. OCLC 11030545. Retrieved April 8, 2014.
- ^ "Warm Springs Dam: Overview". United States Bureau of Reclamation. Retrieved March 25, 2011.
- ^ "Warm Springs Dam: General". United States Bureau of Reclamation. Retrieved March 25, 2011.
- ^ "Warm Springs Dam: Dimensions". United States Bureau of Reclamation. Retrieved March 25, 2011.
- ^ "Warm Springs Reservoir". Recreation.gov. Retrieved March 25, 2011.
External links
- Media related to Warm Springs Reservoir at Wikimedia Commons
- "Warm Springs Reservoir". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. November 28, 1980. Retrieved January 13, 2013.