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Plum Creek 19 Dam, Wisconsin
Plum Creek 19 Dam on Tributary to Plum Creek in Wisconsin.
Open in BirdTrout44.5664, -92.13872 · Pierce County · NID WI00380. Tap the map to open this water in the live app.
What the runs do here
Tributary to Plum 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
- Pierce County Local Government
- Purpose
- Flood Risk Reduction, Debris Control
- Completed
- 1968 · modified 2001O
- Type
- Earth
- Height
- 36 ft
- Length
- 320 ft
- Spillway
- Uncontrolled
- Storage
- 58 acre-ft · 2 acre pool
- Drainage
- 1 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
- Plum Creek 0.33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zumbro River at Kellogg, MN | 18.8 mi | — | — |
| Mississippi River at Red Wing, MN | 19.9 mi | — | 9,750 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. 2 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
- Dead Lake Boat Launch 4.5 mi · boat launch · Dead Lake
- Morsbach Shoo-Fly Landing 5.0 mi · boat launch · Chippewa River
- Silver Birch Park Boat Landing 6.0 mi · boat launch · Silver Birch 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
- Bite Me Bait Shop 22.8 mi
- Red Cedar Fly Fishing 23.8 mi · Menomonie
- Bait on Broadway 24.7 mi · Menomonie
- Lund's Fly Shop 31.3 mi · River Falls