Round Butte Dam is a rockfill-type

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on the

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, in the

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. Located in Jefferson County and owned by the power company

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, its reservoir is called

Lake Billy Chinook Lake Billy Chinook is a reservoir in Jefferson County, Oregon, Jefferson County in the U.S. state of Oregon. Created by the Round Butte Dam in 1964, Lake Billy Chinook lies in a canyon at the confluence of the Crooked River (Oregon), Crooked, Desch ...

. The dam was completed in 1965 after three years of construction. More than 10 million tons of earth-fill were used to create this 440-foot tall, 1,320-foot wide, and 1,570-foot thick at the base storage dam.

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