Haystack Dam Explained

Haystack Dam (National ID # OR00287) is a dam in central Oregon, about ten miles south of Madras.

The earthen dam was constructed in 1957 by the United States Bureau of Reclamation, with a height of 105 feet and 1200 feet long at its crest.^[1] It serves as an offstream storage facility as part of the larger Deschutes Project, which also includes the Crane Prairie Reservoir and the Wickiup Reservoir.^[2] The dam is owned by the Bureau and operated by the local North Unit Irrigation District.^[3]

The reservoir it creates, Haystack Reservoir, has a water surface of 233 acres, about five linear miles of shoreline,^[4] and a maximum capacity of 5,600 acre-feet.^[5] Recreation includes fishing (for largemouth bass, crappie, rainbow trout, kokanee, brown trout, and brown bullhead), camping, boating, and hunting.

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44.499°N -121.1551°W

Notes and References

1. Web site: Dam details - Haystack Dam - Bureau of Reclamation . 2012-08-31 . 2012-09-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120906042939/http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Facility.jsp?fac_Name=Haystack+Dam . dead .
2. Web site: Project details - Deschutes Project - Bureau of Reclamation . 2012-08-31 . 2012-09-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120920222624/http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Project.jsp?proj_Name=Deschutes%20Project . dead .
3. Web site: WATER SOURCES – North Unit Irrigation District.
4. Web site: Haystack Reservoir, Oregon.
5. Web site: Dam details - Haystack Dam - Bureau of Reclamation . 2012-08-31 . 2012-09-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120926032441/http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Facility.jsp?fac_Name=Haystack+Dam&groupName=Overview . dead .