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Brownlee Dam

Brownlee Dam is a hydroelectric earth fill embankment dam in the United States, on the along the - border. In at river mile 285, it impounds the Snake River in the 58-mile-long Brownlee Reservoir.
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  • Type: Power station
  • Description: dam in Hells Canyon,Baker Co., Oregon / Washington Co., Idaho
  • Also known as: “Brownlee powerhouse”

Brownlee Dam

Latitude
44.83649° or 44° 50′ 11″ north
Longitude
-116.89839° or 116° 53′ 54″ west
Inception
August 1958
Operator
Idaho Power
Open location code
85P5R4P2+HJ
Open­Street­Map ID
way 419361401
Wiki­data ID
Q4976595
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Brownlee Dam” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Brownlee Dam (alihan sa tubig sa Estados Unidos, Oregon)”
  • Cebuano: “Brownlee Dam”
  • Japanese: “ブラウンリーダム”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Brownlee-demningen”
  • Norwegian: “Brownlee-demningen”
  • Ukrainian: “ГЕС Браунлі”

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