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General Information

Completion: 1956
Status: in use

Project Type

Structure: Arch dam
Function / usage: Hydroelectric dam / plant
Material: Concrete dam

Location

Location: , ,
Impounds:
  • Clackamas River
Coordinates: 45° 14' 35.87" N    122° 16' 46.88" W
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Technical Information

Dimensions

height 62.79 m
total length 206.05 m

Materials

dam structure reinforced concrete

Excerpt from Wikipedia

The North Fork Dam is on the Clackamas River, about five miles upriver from Estacada, Oregon. It was built in 1958. The North Fork Reservoir is behind it.

Construction

It is a concrete arch dam, 206 feet high and 676 feet long, is thin-shell of variable thickness. It varies in thickness from 32 feet at the base to 8 feet wide at the top.

The fish ladder

North Fork's construction entailed the building of the 1.9-mile-long North Fork Fish Ladder, one of the longest in the world. It also required a complex system to provide for downstream fish passage around the dam.

Text imported from Wikipedia article "North Fork Dam (Clackamas County, Oregon)" and modified on 12 November 2020 according to the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.

Participants

Currently there is no information available about persons or companies having participated in this project.

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  • About this
    data sheet
  • Structure-ID
    20033018
  • Published on:
    03/11/2007
  • Last updated on:
    30/07/2014
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