Silverton Reservoir
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Silverton Reservoir is a sixty-acre impoundment on Silver Creek located in the Cascade foothills just above the city of Silverton, Oregon in the United States. The reservoir serves the purpose of flood control on the creek as well as acting as a water supply for the town below.
The lake is popular in the spring and summer as a recreation area. Stocked with roughly 20,000 hatchery trout each spring and early summer, the lake also provides opportunities to catch bullhead catfish. Swimming is also quite popular on warm summer days as well as recreational boating, though only electric motors are allowed.
Since the reservoir was created in 1960, there has been fear in Silverton that the dam might someday give way. Though structural engineers have declared the dam safe and deemed the conditions for a dam breach to be almost out of the realm of possibility, studies have found that a collapse of the dam would be catastrophic to the city below.
