Dossier #28119
PRIEST RAPIDS
🇺🇸United States · COLUMBIA RIVER River · near RICHLAND, WA
Built 1961 · Dam · data quality: Fair
HydroelectricityFlood controlRecreation
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 57 m
- Crest length
- 3,079 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 235.6 MCM
- Reservoir area
- 30.6 km²
- Average depth
- 7.7 m
- Catchment
- 248,825 km²
- Avg discharge
- 3,523,737 L/s
- Elevation
- 145 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 0.2 %
Notes
Built 1961
Provenance
Record 28119 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GOODD-NID, year via NID. Coordinates are river-snapped: 46.6451, -119.9115.