Plum Creek 2 Dam, Wisconsin

Plum Creek 2 Dam on Plum Creek in Wisconsin.

44.66745, -92.20466 · Pierce County · NID WI00382. Tap the map to open this water in the live app.

What the runs do here

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: 1973 · modified 2002O
Type: Earth
Height: 88 ft
Length: 820 ft
Spillway: Uncontrolled, 60 ft wide
Storage: 8,460 acre-ft · 116 acre pool
Drainage: 18 sq mi
Condition: Satisfactory · 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

Plum Creek 0.01 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
Mississippi River at Red Wing, MN	18.0 mi	—	9,690 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. 1 of the gauges above is 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

Nugget lake Fishing Pier 1.5 mi · walk in · Nugget Lake
Nugget Lake County Park Boat Ramp 1.6 mi · boat launch · Nugget 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

Red Cedar Fly Fishing 19.9 mi · Menomonie
Bait on Broadway 20.5 mi · Menomonie
Lund's Fly Shop 24.5 mi · River Falls
Bite Me Bait Shop 27.0 mi

The river this is on

Plum Creek Live temperature, regulations, hatches and access on the whole river →

Open this water on the map →Every reach around it coloured by today's water temperature, with the access points along it.