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Peaks of Otter Dam 1-K Mi.85.5, Virginia
Peaks of Otter Dam 1-K Mi.85.5 on Little Stoney Creek in Virginia.
Open in BirdTrout37.444745, -79.602368 · Bedford County · NID VA019001. Tap the map to open this water in the live app.
What the runs do here
Little Stoney 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
- DOI NPS Federal
- Purpose
- Fish and Wildlife Pond, Other, Recreation
- Completed
- 1964 · modified 2007
- Height
- 34 ft
- Length
- 350 ft
- Spillway
- Uncontrolled, 77 ft wide
- Storage
- 384 acre-ft · 24 acre pool
- Condition
- Not Available · High 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
- Little Stony Creek 0.26 mi from the dam · Class II · 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| James River at Buchanan, VA | 7.3 mi | — | 459 cfs |
| Big Otter River near Bedford, VA | 11.5 mi | — | — |
| Goose Creek at Rt 747 near Bunker Hill, VA | 12.3 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
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
- Angler's Lane 18.0 mi · Forest
- Bob's Up The Creek Outfitters 18.2 mi
- Blue Ridge Fly Fishers 22.1 mi · Roanoke
- Walkabout Outfitters 25.1 mi
- Otterback Outfitters 25.4 mi · Lynchburg · +1 434 944 5375