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Upper North River #76 Dam, Virginia
Upper North River #76 Dam on the Upper North River in Virginia.
Open in BirdTrout38.3266, -79.2234 · Augusta County · NID VA015006. Tap the map to open this water in the live app.
What the runs do here
Upper North 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
- City of Staunton Local Government
- Purpose
- Flood Risk Reduction, Water Supply
- Type
- Earth
- Height
- 118 ft
- Length
- 824 ft
- Storage
- 10,500 acre-ft · 54 acre pool
- Drainage
- 24 sq mi
- Condition
- Satisfactory · High hazard potential
- Status
- Normal Operations
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
- North River 0.05 mi from the dam · Class VI · stocked holdover (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buckhorn Creek Abv Tributary Nr Lone Fountain, VA | 2.5 mi | 60.4 °F | — |
| Buckhorn Creek above Rt 250 Nr Lone Fountain, VA | 2.9 mi | — | — |
| Ramseys Draft at Route 716 near West Augusta, VA | 7.0 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
The dam sits on or beside public land, USFS.
No listed public access site within 8 miles of this dam.
Fly shops nearby
- Walkabout Outfitters 21.0 mi
- Casta Line Trout Farms 21.8 mi
- Mossy Creek Fly Fishing 22.0 mi · Harrisonburg
- South River Fly Shop 25.5 mi · Waynesboro · +1 540-942-5566
- Appalachian Trail Outfitters 32.9 mi