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Clam Falls, Wisconsin
Clam Falls on the Clam River in Wisconsin.
Open in BirdTrout45.687247, -92.295607 · Polk County · NID WI00022. Tap the map to open this water in the live app.
What the runs do here
Clam 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
- Polk County Local Government
- Purpose
- Hydroelectric, Recreation
- Completed
- 1875 · modified 1942O
- Type
- Gravity
- Height
- 36 ft
- Length
- 80 ft
- Spillway
- Controlled
- Storage
- 950 acre-ft · 127 acre pool
- Drainage
- 65 sq mi
- Condition
- Poor · 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
- Clam River 0.0 mi from the dam · Class II · wild supplemented (WDNR)
- McKenzie Creek 0.89 mi from the dam · Class I · wild (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
| Gauge | Distance | Temp | Flow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wood River @ North Williams Road Nr Grantsburg, WI | 17.5 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
- Clam Falls Flowage Access 0.1 mi · boat launch · Clam Falls Flowage
- Somers Lake Access 2.8 mi · boat launch · Somers Lake
- Godfrey Lake Access 3.7 mi · boat launch · Godfrey Lake
- McKenzie Lake Access 5.2 mi · boat launch · McKenzie Lake
- East Elbow Lake Access 5.5 mi · boat launch · East Elbow Lake
- Ward Lake Boat Ramp 6.0 mi · boat launch · Ward 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.