Water Levels
Turtle-Flambeau Scenic Waters Area
- Turtle-Flambeau Scenic Waters Area
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- Introduction
- Auto tour
- Boating / Canoeing
- Camping
- Cross-country sking and snowshoeing
- Fishing
- Forest management
- Hiking / Nature trails
- History of good stewardship
- Hunting
- Nature and wildlife viewing
- Protecting your flowage
- Quiet area
- Securing the future
- Snowmobiles and ATVs
- Turtle-Flambeau Patterned Bog State Natural Area
- Water levels
- Current water level conditions [exit DNR]
- Turtle-Flambeau master plan [PDF]
- Related links
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- Boating in Wisconsin
- Fishing Wisconsin
- Find Boat and Developed Shore Fishing Access Sites
- Aquatic invasive species
- Don't move firewood
- Range of Allowable Firewood [PDF]
- Hunting in Wisconsin
- Snowmobiling in Wisconsin
- USFS Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest [exit DNR]
- USGS Loon Migration Tracking [exit DNR]
- Wisconsin tourism [exit DNR]
- Contact information
- For information on the Turtle-Flambeau Scenic Waters Area, contact:
- Property Manager
Dept of Natural Resources
5291 N. Statehouse Circle
Mercer, Wisconsin 54547
715-476-7846 (office)
715-614-5120 (cell)
Turtle-Flambeau Scenic Waters AreaWater Levels
Current water levels are available on the Xcel Energy website [exit DNR].
Background
DNR Photo
Chippewa and Flambeau Improvement Company (CFIC) is a private corporation created by the legislature in 1911 for the purpose of building, maintaining, and operating dams and reservoirs on the Chippewa and Flambeau Rivers and their tributaries. The law directs the Company to produce as nearly a uniform flow of water as practicable in the Chippewa and Flambeau Rivers, by storing in reservoirs surplus water for discharge when the water supply is low, to improve the usefulness of the rivers for all public purposes, and to reduce flood damage.
CFIC constructed the Turtle Dam creating the Turtle-Flambeau Flowage in 1926 and they continue to own and operate the dam as directed by state statute. A Memorandum of Understanding [PDF] between CFIC and the Department of Natural Resources guides dam operations.