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Lighting Plant Dam, Wisconsin
Lighting Plant Dam on the Waupaca in Wisconsin.
Open in BirdTrout44.362992, -89.086575 · Waupaca County · NID WI00228. Tap the map to open this water in the live app.
What the runs do here
Waupaca 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
- Shanak, Janet and Edward Private
- Purpose
- Hydroelectric
- Completed
- 1927
- Type
- Gravity
- Height
- 25 ft
- Length
- 300 ft
- Spillway
- Controlled
- Storage
- 240 acre-ft
- Drainage
- 176 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
- Waupaca River 0.0 mi from the dam · Class II · wild supplemented (WDNR) · typed Cold
- Crystal River 1.24 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
- Mirror Lake Access 0.9 mi · canoe launch · Mirror Lake
- Shadow Lake Access 1.1 mi · boat launch · Shadow Lake
- Taylor Lake Access 3.1 mi · boat launch · Taylor Lake
- Crystal River Access 4.2 mi · canoe launch · Crystal River
- Casey Lake Access 4.6 mi · boat launch · Casey Lake
- Miner Lake Access 4.7 mi · boat launch · Miner 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
- Smiley's Feed & Bait 22.6 mi · Wautoma · +1-920-787-2997
- Taps And Tackle Co. 25.2 mi · Stevens Point · +1-715-341-7400
- Fish Tales 34.2 mi