Gerber Dam is a concrete

arch dam An arch dam is a concrete dam that is curved upstream in plan. The arch dam is designed so that the force of the water against it, known as hydrostatic pressure, presses against the arch, causing the arch to straighten slightly and strengthen ...

located 14 miles east of

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, and about 12 miles north of the

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border, in

Klamath County, Oregon Klamath County ( ) is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 census, the population was 69,413. The county seat is Klamath Falls. The county was named for the Klamath, the tribe of Native Americans living in the a ...

. The dam was completed in 1925 by the

United States Bureau of Reclamation The Bureau of Reclamation, and formerly the United States Reclamation Service, is a federal agency under the U.S. Department of the Interior, which oversees water resource management, specifically as it applies to the oversight and opera ...

as part of the

Klamath Project The Klamath Project is a water-management project developed by the United States Bureau of Reclamation to supply farmers with irrigation water and farmland in the Klamath Basin. The project also supplies water to the Tule Lake National Wildlif ...

. It provides irrigation storage but no hydroelectric power, and it reduces flow into the downstream

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in California. The dam has a height of 84 feet and is 460 feet long at the crest. Gerber Reservoir, formed by impounding Miller Creek, contains 94,300

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of water. The reservoir is a popular recreation area.http://www.blm.gov/or/resources/recreation/files/brochures/Gerber%20Rec%20Area.pdf

References

External links

Atlas of Oregon Lakes site
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