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Caroline Dam, Wisconsin
Caroline Dam on the Middle Branch Embarrass in Wisconsin.
Open in BirdTrout44.722401, -88.891429 · Shawano County · NID WI00309. Tap the map to open this water in the live app.
What the runs do here
Middle Branch Embarrass 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
- TOWN OF GRANT Local Government
- Purpose
- Other, Recreation, Hydroelectric
- Completed
- 1878 · modified 1944O
- Type
- Gravity
- Height
- 13 ft
- Length
- 340 ft
- Spillway
- Controlled
- Storage
- 190 acre-ft · 33 acre pool
- Drainage
- 247 sq mi
- Condition
- Satisfactory · Low 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
- Middle Branch Embarrass River 0.42 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
- Caroline Pond Boat Ramp 0.4 mi · boat launch · Caroline Pond
- Embarrass River Canoe Launch 2.7 mi · canoe launch · Embarrass River
- Lions Point Park Boat Launch 3.4 mi · boat launch · Marion Pond
- Wallace Park Boat Launch 3.4 mi · boat launch · Marion Pond
- Leopolis Pond Access 3.9 mi · canoe launch · North Branch Embarrass River
- Pella Pond Access 4.5 mi · boat launch · Pella Pond
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.
The river this is on
- Middle Branch Embarrass River Live temperature, regulations, hatches and access on the whole river →