Malheur Reservoir is an irrigation lake along Willow Creek in Malheur County in the U.S. state of Oregon. Built by the Orchard Irrigation District in the 1930s, the 1,282-acre lake can hold about 49,000 acre-feet of water, which is used to irrigate about 2,300 acres of farmland downstream. Draining a semi-arid rangeland basin of 254 square miles, the reserv…Malheur Reservoir is an irrigation lake along Willow Creek in Malheur County in the U.S. state of Oregon. Built by the Orchard Irrigation District in the 1930s, the 1,282-acre lake can hold about 49,000 acre-feet of water, which is used to irrigate about 2,300 acres of farmland downstream. Draining a semi-arid rangeland basin of 254 square miles, the reservoir receives very high concentrations of nutrients and is naturally eutrophic.
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