The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Oregon Parks and Recreation Department alert visitors to Lost Creek Reservoir that the boat ramp at Joseph H. Stewart State Recreation Area is closed due to low water. The ramp should reopen early in 2012. The Takelma boat ramp remains open. The Corps has drawn down the reservoir…
Lost Creek level makes ramp at Stewart inaccessible
November 28, 2010 by Leave a Comment
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is lowering the water level at Lost Creek Lake to levels that will make the Stewart State Park boat ramp inaccessible. “The Stewart State Park boat ramp will be above the water level and will be unusable until mid-January,” said Jim Buck, Rogue River Basin Project operations manager. “Boaters…
Work on notching dam to begin
January 28, 2008 by Leave a Comment
The Army Corps of Engineers has issued the final environmental assessment and finding that there is no significant impact for their plan to notch the dam and create a fish passage. Elk Creek Dam started with a less than straight forward history. It was initially approved in 1971 but then deferred until 1977…
Hearing (again) on notching of Elk Creek Dam
October 8, 2007 by Leave a Comment
A plan to create permanent passage for fish through the Elk Creek Dam is moving forward, according to an announcement from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers last Friday. The Corps proposes to construct a fish passage corridor through the dam and return Elk Creek to its original alignment and gradient. This will…
