Oxbow Dam
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Annual generation 1,047 gigawatt-hours (3,770 TJ) | | |
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Oxbow Dam is a hydroelectric run-of-the-river rockfill dam in the western United States, on the Snake River in Hells Canyon (river mile 273) along the Idaho-Oregon border.
Description
Completed 63 years ago in 1961,Idaho Power Company.
The dam's powerhouse contains four generating units with a total nameplate capacity of 190 megawatts (250,000 hp).
Lacking passage for migrating
anadromous salmonids to a stretch of the Snake River drainage basin from Hells Canyon Dam up to Shoshone Falls
, which naturally prevents any upstream fish passage to the upper Snake River basin.
Heliport
Oxbow Heliport (FAA LID: OR83) is a private 100-by-100-foot (30 by 30 m), turf heliport owned by Idaho Power.[2]
See also
References
- ^ a b "Oxbow completed (photo)". Lewiston Morning Tribune. November 30, 1961. p. 1, section 2.
- ^ FAA 5010 for OR83
External links
- Oxbow Dam, Columbia Basin Research
- Oxbow Dam, Northwest Power and Conservation Council
- Oxbow Dam, Idaho Power
- Resources for this airport:
- FAA airport information for OR83
- AirNav airport information for OR83
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- SkyVector aeronautical chart for OR83
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