Round Butte Dam
Round Butte Dam is a rockfill-type hydroelectric dam on the Deschutes River, in the U.S. state of Oregon. Located in Jefferson County and owned by the power company Portland General Electric, its reservoir is called Lake Billy Chinook.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Metolius.
Metolius
Village
Metolius is a city in Jefferson County, Oregon, United States, named for the Metolius River, a nearby tributary of the Deschutes River. The name for both comes from the Warm Springs or Sahaptin word mitula, meaning white salmon and referring to a light colored Chinook salmon and not a whitefish. Metolius is situated 5 miles east of Round Butte Dam.
Round Butte Dam
- Type: Dam
- Description: dam in Jefferson County, Oregon, USA
- Categories: embankment dam and hydroelectric power station
- Location: Jefferson, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Round Butte Dam” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Round Butte Dam”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Round Butte-demningen”
- Norwegian: “Round Butte-demningen”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС Раунд-Б’ют”
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