Elk Creek (Rogue River)

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The river rises at an altitude of 1504 m in the Cascade Range. It flows in a southwesterly direction through the Rogue River - Siskiyou National Forest and flows eight kilometers downstream from Lost Creek Lake and slightly above Trail, Oregon. Elk Creek Dam is only partially completed dam for flood control; he blocked fish migration for more than 20 years before it was partially demolished in 2008 to restore the original course of the river.

Run

In the first eight or nine miles of its course flow into the Elk Creek Brush Creek from the left, then right Swanson Creek and Bitter Creek and Creek Button again from the left. From then on, runs parallel to the water on the right bank of the Elk Creek Road. Then joins from the left and from the right Sugarpine Dodes Creek, Jones, Shell and Flat Creek. Located on the river mile 7 (11 km above the mouth ), the mouth of Middle Creek and just below also opens from the right Alco Creek. About five kilometers above the mouth of Elk Creek flows coming in from right West Branch Elk Creek to the main stem of the water together, just above the Elk Creek Dam. Below the dam is located on the right bank at river mile 1.3 a level of the United States Geological Survey (USGS ). Just below the Berry Creek empties into the Elk Creek, then the Rogue Elk County Park happens on the left bank and the Oregon State Route 62 passes before it flows into the Rogue River, 245 km upstream of its confluence with the Pacific Ocean.

Dam

The Elk Creek Dam is a dam, which is about five kilometers above the mouth of the river in the Rogue River. He was one of three dams that have been approved by the Congress of the United States in 1982 for flood protection in the catchment area of ​​the Rogue River. The other two were the Lost Creek Dam ( the dam was later in William L. Jess Dam grained ) on the Rogue River itself and the Applegate Dam on the Applegate River. When the dam was completed in about one-third, leading court decisions that have been brought to protect salmon and other migratory fish, 1987 to cessation of the construction. From 1992 onwards were fish that wanted the dam happen captured, transported by truck to the dam around and released. The litigation and the political debate lasted more than twenty years, and finally a compromise was reached which provided for the decommissioning of the dam by about 15 percent. The rest should remain, so that a subsequent further construction was possible. The United States Army Corps of Engineers blew up in 2008 parts of the dam and put the original course of the river restored. The dam, which should be about 73 m high initially, reached a height of 24.5 m before the cessation of construction activity.