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Pine River Dam, Wisconsin
Pine River Dam on the Pine River in Wisconsin.
Open in BirdTrout44.15089, -89.07738 · Waushara County · NID WI00905. Tap the map to open this water in the live app.
What the runs do here
Pine 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
- TOWN OF LEON Local Government
- Purpose
- Recreation, Hydroelectric
- Completed
- 1856 · modified 1976O
- Type
- Earth
- Height
- 16 ft
- Length
- 300 ft
- Spillway
- Controlled
- Storage
- 90 acre-ft · 12 acre pool
- Drainage
- 100 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
- Pine River 0.03 mi from the dam · Class II · wild supplemented (WDNR) · typed Cold
- Carpenter Creek 0.53 mi from the dam · Class II · wild supplemented (WDNR) · typed Cold
- Little Silver Creek 0.68 mi from the dam · Class I · wild (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
| Gauge | Distance | Temp | Flow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fox River at Berlin | 14.1 mi | 62.6 °F | 1,580 cfs |
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.
Getting to it
- Lake Napowan Boat Ramp 3.9 mi · boat launch · Lake Napowan
- Poysippi Boat Launch 4.0 mi · boat launch · Pine River
- Kusel Lake County Park Boat Ramp 4.1 mi · boat launch · Kuesel Lake
- Round Lake Boat Ramp 4.4 mi · boat launch · Round Lake
- Big Hills Lake County Park Boat Ramp 4.7 mi · boat launch · Big Hills Lake
- Archer Lane Boat Ramp 4.9 mi · boat launch · Wilson 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 11.7 mi · Wautoma · +1-920-787-2997
- Fish Tales 27.9 mi
- Taps And Tackle Co. 34.6 mi · Stevens Point · +1-715-341-7400