Noxon Rapids Dam Explained
Noxon Rapids Dam |
Dam Crosses: | Clark Fork |
Res Name: | Noxon Reservoir |
Location: | Sanders County, Montana |
Operator: | Avista |
Dam Length: | 5,840 ft (1,780 m)[1] |
Dam Height: | 260feet[2] |
Construction Began: | 1955[3] |
Opening: | 1959[4] |
Cost: | $85 million[5] |
Res Capacity Total: | 400000acre.ft |
Res Catchment: | 21,800 sq mi (56,500 km²) |
Res Surface: | 7700acres[6] |
Plant Operator: | Avista |
Plant Turbines: | 5 |
Plant Capacity: | 527 MW[7] |
Noxon Rapids Dam is an earthfill gravity-type hydroelectric dam on the Clark Fork river, in the northwest part of the U.S. state of Montana.
The dam is located in the far northwest of Montana near the Idaho border. Downriver of Noxon Rapids Dam the Clark Fork is again impounded by the Cabinet Gorge Dam.
The operating capacity of Noxon Rapids Dam at full turbine flow and full pool is 527 MW.[8] The project is owned and operated by Avista.
See also
External links
- Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) documentation, filed under South Bank of Clark Fork River at Noxon Rapids, Noxon, Sanders County, MT:
Notes and References
- http://npdp.stanford.edu/DamDirectory/DamDetail.jsp?npdp_id=MT00223 Noxon Rapids Dam
- Web site: Yes, It's Happening…..Fish Passage on 6 Dams in the Pend Oreille & Clark Fork Rivers for Resident Fish. Kalispel Natural Resource Department. 2014-03-09. 2015-01-09.
- Web site: We've Made History Together. Avista. 2009. 2015-01-11.
- Web site: Wildlife and Wildlife Habitat Mitigation Plan for the Nixon Rapids and Cabinet Gorge Hydroelectric Projects. Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks. April 1985. 2015-01-09.
- Web site: Noxon Rapids Dam. 2015-01-11.
- Web site: Selective Control of Eurasian Watermilfoil and Curlyleaf Pondweed in Noxon Rapids Reservoir, Montana acres. United States Army Corps of Engineers. March 2014. 2015-01-11.
- Web site: Clark Fork River Dams. Avista Corporation. 2018-04-04.
- http://hqweb.unep.org/dams/documents/ell.asp?story_id=100