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Mead Dam, Wisconsin
Mead Dam on the South Fork Eau Claire River in Wisconsin.
Open in BirdTrout44.789076, -90.772712 · Clark County · NID WI00067. Tap the map to open this water in the live app.
What the runs do here
South Fork Eau Claire 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
- Clark County Local Government
- Purpose
- Recreation
- Completed
- 1951
- Type
- Earth
- Height
- 28 ft
- Length
- 1600 ft
- Spillway
- Controlled
- Storage
- 4,000 acre-ft · 320 acre pool
- Drainage
- 108 sq mi
- Condition
- Fair · 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
- Black Creek 0.7 mi from the dam · Class III · stocked (WDNR)
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
- Mead Lake South Side Boat Landing 0.6 mi · boat launch · Mead Lake
- North Mead Lake County Park Boat Ramp 0.7 mi · boat launch · Mead Lake
- Rock Dam County Park Boat Ramp 5.4 mi · boat launch · Rock Dam 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
- Rocque Ridge Guides & Outfitters LLC 34.3 mi