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292:, then modified and reinforced several times since. With a height of 93 feet (28 m) and 650 feet (200 m) long at its crest, it impounds Willow Creek for irrigation storage and flood control, part of the Bureau's larger Sun River Project. The dam is owned and operated by the Bureau.
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