Brownlee Dam

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You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.Brownlee Dam is a hydroelectric earth fill embankment dam in the western United States, on the Snake River along the Idaho-Oregon border (Washington County, Idaho in and Baker County in Oregon).

[1][2][6] Filling started 67 years ago on May 9, 1958 (1958-05-09),[3] flooding the community of Robinette, Oregon.

The dam's powerhouse contains five generating units with a total nameplate capacity of 585.4 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.

Columbia River Basin
Columbia River Basin
Namesake of the Brownlee Dam & Reservoir, July 2008