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Metz No.1 Dam, Wisconsin
Metz No.1 Dam on Tr Wolf Creek in Wisconsin.
Open in BirdTrout42.564157, -90.09391 · Lafayette County · NID WI00863. Tap the map to open this water in the live app.
What the runs do here
Tr Wolf Creek 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
- Sever, Mirko Private
- Purpose
- Recreation
- Completed
- 1974
- Type
- Earth
- Height
- 26 ft
- Length
- 725 ft
- Spillway
- Uncontrolled
- Storage
- 79 acre-ft · 4 acre pool
- Drainage
- 0 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
- Wolf Creek 0.66 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
- Rolli Landing 4.3 mi · boat launch · Pecatonica River
- Pecatonica River Shore Fishing, Town Of Gratiot 4.3 mi · walk in · Pecatonica River
- Hwy 78 Landing 5.3 mi · boat launch · Pecatonica River
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
- Fever River Outfitters 20.1 mi · Galena