Oxbow Dam
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| Official name | Oxbow Dam |
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| Impounds | Snake River |
| Creates | Oxbow Reservoir |
| Locale | Hells Canyon |
| Maintained by | Idaho Power Company |
| Height | 175 ft (53 m) |
| Opening date | 1961 |
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| Capacity | 58,200 acre-feet (72,000,000 m³) |
| Catchment area | 73,300 square miles (189,800 km²) |
| Surface area | 1,150 acres (4.65 km²) |
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Oxbow Dam is a hydroelectric run-of-the-river rockfill dam on the Snake River on the Idaho-Oregon border, in Hells Canyon (river mile 273). It is part of the Hells Canyon Project that also includes Hells Canyon Dam and Brownlee Dam, built and operated by Idaho Power Company.
The dam's powerhouse contains four generating units with a total nameplate capacity of 190 megawatts.
Lacking passage for migrating salmon, the three Hells Canyon Project dams blocked access by 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.
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- Oxbow Dam, Columbia Basin Research
- Oxbow Dam, Northwest Power and Conservation Council
- Oxbow Dam, Idaho Power
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