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Big Hungry River Dam, North Carolina
Big Hungry River Dam on the Hungry River in North Carolina.
Open in BirdTrout35.3, -82.3505 · Henderson County · NID NC03036. Tap the map to open this water in the live app.
What the runs do here
Hungry 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
- NC Wildlife Resources Commission State
- Purpose
- Recreation
- Type
- Concrete
- Height
- 30 ft
- Length
- 187 ft
- Storage
- 48 acre-ft · 4 acre pool
- 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
- Hungry River 0.0 mi from the dam · Hatchery Supported Trout Waters · stocked holdover (NCWRC)
- Green River 1.12 mi from the dam · Wild Trout Waters · wild (NCWRC)
- Pulliam Creek 1.21 mi from the dam · Wild Trout Waters · wild (NCWRC)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| French Broad River near Fletcher, Nc | 14.5 mi | 67.8 °F | 1,010 cfs |
| Mills River near Mills River, Nc | 15.3 mi | 64.6 °F | 65 cfs |
| French Broad R at Blue Ridge Pkwy at Bent Creek Nc | 19.4 mi | 72.4 °F | — |
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
The dam sits on or beside public land, SFW.
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
- Davidson River Outfitters 20.8 mi · Pisgah Forest
- Cole's Bait Shop and Kayak Rental 21.6 mi
- Take A Hike Outfitters 21.9 mi · Black Mountain · +18286690811
- Hunter Banks Fly Fishing 23.3 mi · Asheville
- Curtis Wright Outfitters 29.9 mi · Weaverville · +18286458700