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DETROIT DAM – If you don't like heights, this dam's walkways are not for you, with winds that make you wobble and a 469-foot concrete-lined drop downriver. Detroit, like the other dams wedged ...
DETROIT, Ore. — Forty five miles east of Salem along Highway 22, the Detroit Dam, in the Cascade Mountains, holds back some of the North Santiam River. It forms Detroit Lake and controls the ...
There won't be as much electricity produced at Detroit Dam this winter. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will periodically turn off turbines at the dam to help juvenile salmon make their way ...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is planning to build a 300-foot tower and floating screen at Detroit Dam to improve water temperature and fish passage for salmon and steelhead in the North ...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has begun seeking information from industry sources capable of supporting the development of a selective withdrawal structure at Detroit Dam on the North Santiam ...
Then, it would be refilled before the summer tourism season. Detroit Lake would become the fifth reservoir in the Upper Willamette Basin to undergo what’s known as a “drawdown” — turning a ...
DETROIT, Ore. — Forty five miles east of Salem along Highway 22, the Detroit Dam, in the Cascade Mountains, holds back some of the North Santiam River. It forms Detroit Lake and controls the ...
The reservoir east of Salem would be drawn down to 1,395 feet above sea level, about 55 feet below its normal low-water pool and 30 feet lower than it has ever been taken, to allow baby salmon to ...
DETROIT, Ore. — Forty five miles east of Salem along Highway 22, the Detroit Dam, in the Cascade Mountains, holds back some of the North Santiam River. It forms Detroit Lake and controls the ...