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Twin Parks 3 Dam, Wisconsin
Twin Parks 3 Dam on Tributary to Mill Creek in Wisconsin.
Open in BirdTrout43.016871, -90.015693 · Iowa County · NID WI00358. Tap the map to open this water in the live app.
What the runs do here
Tributary to Mill 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
- Iowa County Local Government
- Purpose
- Flood Risk Reduction, Debris Control
- Completed
- 1965
- Type
- Earth
- Height
- 33 ft
- Length
- 346 ft
- Spillway
- Uncontrolled, 40 ft wide
- Storage
- 244 acre-ft · 7 acre pool
- Drainage
- 2 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
- Mill Creek 0.7 mi from the dam · Class II · wild supplemented (WDNR) · typed Cold
- Strutt Creek 1.23 mi from the dam · Class I · wild (WDNR) · typed Cold
- Canyon Park Creek 1.36 mi from the dam · Class II · wild supplemented (WDNR) · typed Cold
- Cutler Creek 1.48 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
- Twin Valley Lake Launch 3.7 mi · boat launch · Twin Valley Lake
- Cox Hollow Lake Access 5.0 mi · boat launch · Cox Hollow Lake
- Birch Lake 5.2 mi · boat launch · 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
- Fontana Sports 31.3 mi · Madison