Silver Creek Reservoir

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location = Marion County, Oregon
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type = Reservoir
inflow = Silver Creek
outflow = Silver Creek
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Silver Creek Reservoircite web |url=gnis3|1133678 |title=Feature Query Results |publisher= United States Board on Geographic Names, United States Geological Survey |accessdate=2008-09-05] also known as Silverton Reservoircite web |url= http://www.silverton.or.us/Departments/PublicWorks/WaterQualityDivision/tabid/4760/language/en-US/Default.aspx |title= Public Works: Water Quality Division |publisher= City of Silverton, Oregon |accessdate= 2008-09-05] is a sixty-five-acre impoundment on Silver Creek located in the Cascade foothills 2.5 miles southeast of the city of Silverton, Oregon, United States on Oregon Route 214.cite web |url= http://www.dfw.state.or.us/ODFWhtml/InfoCntrFish/trout_stocking_sched/nw_stocked_lakes.pdf |title= North Willamette Watershed District Clackamas, Columbia, (north) Marion, Multnomah, Washington and Yamhill Counties Lakes Stocked with Trout, |publisher= Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife |accessdate= 2008-09-05] The reservoir serves the purpose of flood control on the creek as well as acting as a water supply for the city below.

The lake is popular in the spring and summer as a recreation area. Stocked with roughly 20,000 hatchery trout each spring and early summer, the lake also provides opportunities to catch bullhead catfish. Swimming is also quite popular on warm summer days as well as recreational boating, though only electric motors are allowed.

Since the reservoir was created in 1960, there has been fear in Silverton that Silver Creek Dam might someday give way. Though structural engineers have declared the dam safe and deemed the conditions for a dam breach to be almost out of the realm of possibility, studies have found that a collapse of the dam would be catastrophic to the city below.cite web |url= http://www.silverton.or.us/Portals/64/Departments/Public%20Works/2000%20Inundation%20Report.pdf |title= Silver Creek Dam Break Analysis |accessdate=2008-09-05]

See also

* List of lakes in Oregon

References