Harris Station Dam Explained

Indian Pond
Location:Somerset County, Maine
Pushpin Map:Maine
Coords:45.5167°N -118°W
Basin Countries:United States
Length:9miles[1]
Area:[2]
Max-Depth:118feet[3]
Volume:64093acre.ft
Elevation:955feet

Harris Station Dam is a hydroelectric dam in Northeast Somerset, Somerset County, Maine. Also known as the Indian Pond Project, the dam was built from 1952 to 1954 as the largest hydroelectric dam in the state of Maine. It impounds the Kennebec River at the southern end of the natural Indian Pond, about 12miles downstream from Moosehead Lake.[4]

The concrete gravity structure is high and was named for Ford Harris, the chief engineer of original builders Central Maine Power.[5] The dam creates about 86 megawatts of hydroelectric power. It is owned and operated by Brookfield Renewable.[6]

The Kennebec River valley is flooded upstream of the dam northeasterly through Indian Stream township into Sapling township. Tributaries Bog Brook, Gold Brook, Falls Brook, Coburn Brook, and Brandy Brook enter the west side of the reservoir. East side tributaries are Burnham Brook draining Burnham Pond, and Indian Stream draining Little Indian Bog, Big Indian Pond, Trout Pond, and Moore Bog.[1] The reservoir has good cold water habitat for brook trout, lake trout, and land-locked Atlantic salmon.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: The Maine Atlas and Gazetteer . DeLorme Mapping Company . Thirteenth . 1988 . Freeport, Maine . 40&41 . 0-89933-035-5.
  2. Web site: Maine Lakes: Morphometry and Geographic Information. 2008-07-31. Maine Depts. of Environmental Protection and Inland Fisheries & Wildlife. 2005-08-04. Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research, The University of Maine. https://web.archive.org/web/20060903111335/http://www.pearl.maine.edu/Browseglobal.asp?PNI=LAKES_STREAMS&NoOfInputs=0&mode=DATA&TABLENAME=ADMIN_GMC03&action=DISPLAYFIELDS. 2006-09-03. dead.
  3. Web site: Canada Falls Lake . Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife . State of Maine . 7 May 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160604001512/http://www.state.me.us/ifw/fishing/lakesurvey_maps/somerset/canada_falls_lake.pdf . 4 June 2016 . dead .
  4. Web site: Harris Station Dam: The Key to Kennebec River Rafting - Maine Rafting and Adventure Vacations | Northern Outdoors . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120126064441/http://blog.northernoutdoors.com/blog/maine-rafting-vacations/harris-station-dam-the-key-to-kennebec-river-rafting- . 2012-01-26 . 2012-07-25 .
  5. Web site: History of Harris - ES398B - Dammed Maine: Watershed Policies and Governance - Colby College Wiki . 2012-07-25 . 2016-07-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160713131005/http://wiki.colby.edu/display/es398b/History+of+Harris . dead .
  6. Web site: Maine . 2013-07-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151223075452/http://brookfieldrenewable.com/content/maine-30910.html . 2015-12-23 . dead .

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