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Au Train Dam, Michigan
Au Train Dam on the Au Train River in Michigan.
Open in BirdTrout46.3321, -86.8501 · Alger County · NID MI00152. Tap the map to open this water in the live app.
What the runs do here
Au Train 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
- Purpose
- Hydroelectric, Recreation
- Completed
- 1910
- Type
- Gravity
- Height
- 45 ft
- Length
- 1970 ft
- Spillway
- Uncontrolled, 100 ft wide
- Storage
- 12,319 acre-ft · 1,515 acre pool
- Drainage
- 80 sq mi
- Condition
- Poor · High hazard potential
- Status
- Under Investigation, Planning, Permitting, or Design for Remediation
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
- Au Train River 0.26 mi from the dam · Cold transitional small river (MDNR VSEC) · typed Cold-transitional
- Slapneck Creek 1.34 mi from the dam · Cold transitional stream (MDNR VSEC) · typed Cold-transitional
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
| Gauge | Distance | Temp | Flow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miners River Nr Munising, MI | 18.2 mi | — | — |
Live from USGS. A gauge miles away is a gauge miles away — the distance column is there so you can discount it. A hydro dam's releases move the flow below it on a schedule the gauge sees and this page does not. 1 of the gauges above is not sending water temperature at all — a stopped gauge still answers with the last value it ever sent and nothing to say so, so those rows carry a modelled figure where one can be fitted, marked as modelled, and a dash where it cannot.
Getting to it
No listed public access site within 8 miles of this dam.
Fly shops nearby
- South Bay Outfitters 10.8 mi · Munising