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Lower North River # 78 Dam, Virginia
Lower North River # 78 Dam on Briery Branch in Virginia.
Open in BirdTrout38.45, -79.1598 · Rockingham County · NID VA165002. Tap the map to open this water in the live app.
What the runs do here
Briery Branch 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
- Shenandoah Valley Soil and Water Conservation District Local Government
- Purpose
- Flood Risk Reduction
- Type
- Earth
- Height
- 89 ft
- Length
- 762 ft
- Storage
- 2,550 acre-ft · 32 acre pool
- Drainage
- 9 sq mi
- Condition
- Fair · 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
- Briery Branch 0.01 mi from the dam · Class III · wild (VDWR)
- Hone Quarry Run 1.46 mi from the dam · Class III · wild (VDWR)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thorny Branch near Mount Solon, VA | 6.0 mi | — | — |
| Beaver Creek near Ottobine, VA | 6.7 mi | — | — |
| Mossy Creek near Bridgewater, Va | 9.1 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. 3 of the gauges above are 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, USFS.
No listed public access site within 8 miles of this dam.
Fly shops nearby
- Walkabout Outfitters 15.8 mi
- Mossy Creek Fly Fishing 17.3 mi · Harrisonburg
- Appalachian Trail Outfitters 29.1 mi
- South River Fly Shop 30.2 mi · Waynesboro · +1 540-942-5566
- Casta Line Trout Farms 31.0 mi