Brownlee Dam
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Brownlee Dam is a hydroelectric earth fill embankment dam in the western United States, on the Snake River along the Idaho-Oregon border. In Hells Canyon at river mile 285, it impounds the Snake River
View from northeast in August 2025
Namesake of the Brownlee Dam & Reservoir, July 2008
Oxbow Dam
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Oxbow Dam is a hydroelectric run-of-the-river rockfill dam in the western United States, on the Snake River in Hells Canyon along the Idaho-Oregon border.
Brownlee Dam
…the Snake River in the 58-mile-long (93 km) Brownlee Reservoir. The dam is part of the Hells Canyon Project that also includes Hells Canyon Dam and Oxbow Dam, all built and operated by Idaho Power Company. The first and upper-most of the three dams, its contractor was Morrison-Knudsen of Boise. Filling started…
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Oxbow Dam power station