Lucky Peak Dam
Located on the Boise River is the Lucky Peak Dam with its message to the world: “Keep Your Forests Green”. The 340 feet tall dam was completed in 1955 and can be seen from ground level here.
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Look a little bit down stream and see the aqueduct that comes out of a smaller dam. The aqueduct looks like it goes all the way to the coast, and you see many fields that appear to be irrigated from it. Interesting.
Follow the river even further down…. around the Boise state football stadium and you see a nice glitch in the pictures the river just ends (look a little to the south and it starts again)
Flood about 315 acres of land and then put a plea to keep your forests green on the structure that keeps it flooded? Irony.
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Is this another damn in Texas? Look at the water ripples looks rather interesting
There’s some sort of strange light effect (northern part of the lake looks more reflective/higher albedo than the southern part), but it appears to be a lake created by a dam (to the south of the strange light effect, but to the north of the Redbud Trail Bridge). As for the waves, they appear to be boat wakes propogating.
Just fished below the diversion dam, and slayed the trout. Caught my first whitefish too. Seems like this was quite a fishery in the day. I can only imagine the fishing here before this dam.