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Amherst Dam, Wisconsin
Amherst Dam on the Waupaca (Tomorrow) River in Wisconsin.
Open in BirdTrout44.451324, -89.28296 · Portage County · NID WI00286. Tap the map to open this water in the live app.
What the runs do here
Waupaca (Tomorrow) River carries no anadromous run on our corridor map, so this page makes no claim about salmon or steelhead at this dam. What it sits on is coldwater — resident trout water — and the section below says which classification says so.
The structure
- Owner
- Renew Hydro Power, LLC;Village of Amherst Local Government
- Purpose
- Recreation, Hydroelectric
- Completed
- 1857 · modified 1883O;2016O
- Type
- Gravity
- Height
- 14 ft
- Length
- 370 ft
- Spillway
- Controlled, 35 ft wide
- Storage
- 260 acre-ft · 48 acre pool
- Drainage
- 90 sq mi
- Condition
- Fair · Significant hazard potential
From the National Inventory of Dams (USACE). Hazard potential is a downstream-consequence classification, not a statement about the structure's condition.
The water above and below
- Tomorrow River 0.0 mi from the dam · Class II · wild supplemented (WDNR) · typed Cold
- Bear Creek 1.23 mi from the dam · Class II · wild supplemented (WDNR) · typed Cold
- Waupaca River 1.23 mi from the dam · Class II · wild supplemented (WDNR) · typed Cold
Coldwater designation is the state's own classification. A dam sits on one river and this list is every designated reach within a mile and a half of it, so a tributary mouth shows up here too.
Water right now
No USGS temperature gauge we read reports within 20 miles of this dam, so this page has no live number for it. That is a gap in the gauge network, not a judgement about the water.
Getting to it
- Tomorrow River 0.1 mi · boat launch · Tomorrow River
- Meyers Lake Boat Landing 1.8 mi · boat launch · Meyers Lake
- Lake Emily Park Boat Ramp 2.5 mi · boat launch · Lake Emily
- Lake Emily Ramp 3.2 mi · boat launch · Lake Emily
- Lime Lake Access 3.7 mi · boat launch · Lime Lake
- Rollofson Lake Canoe launch 4.0 mi · canoe launch · Rollofson Lake
Public access sites near the dam, straight-line distance. A dam itself is private property unless its owner says otherwise; these are the places the state lists as open.
Fly shops nearby
- Taps And Tackle Co. 13.9 mi · Stevens Point · +1-715-341-7400
- Smiley's Feed & Bait 26.4 mi · Wautoma · +1-920-787-2997
- The Sportsman's Repair Shop LLC 31.4 mi · Mosinee · +17156936634
- Mosinee Bait & Taxidermy 31.5 mi · Mosinee · +17156933520