ELECTRIC LAKE
A power company owns this one
Every other water in this series sits behind a government dam. This one is private, which means the state inspects it every year and publishes the file, and the federal record is three cycles out of date and has the spillway wrong by a factor of twenty five.
Every other water Fathom has built a page for sits behind a dam owned by the Bureau of Reclamation or run by a state or local body. This one is owned by a power company. Three separate agency records say so.
| Record | What it says |
|---|---|
| The national dam inventory | Owner type Private. The dam's name in the record is "Pacificorp - Electric Lake". Every federal agency field is empty |
| Utah's dam safety file | Owner PacifiCorp-Huntington Plant, with an agent, a Huntington post office box and a telephone number |
| Utah's industrial water supplier register | System 11095, PacifiCorp (Huntington Power Plant) |
And the state file is more current than the federal one. Utah records the last inspection as 10 June 2026, by a named inspector, on a one year interval, out of the Price regional office . The national inventory still carries 20 June 2023 , three cycles behind. On the federal dams in this series the position is usually the reverse: a four year cycle and no state record at all.
The dam itself: 229 feet structural height, 217 hydraulic, a crest 920 feet long and 30 feet wide at elevation 8,586 feet, an 84 inch reinforced concrete outlet running 1,000 feet, finished in 1974 . It is an earthfill embankment with a drop inlet spillway, which dam engineers call a morning glory. Its owner built a 1:14 scale physical model of that outlet in 2018 to check its hydraulics for cavitation and flow instability , which is the same period as the dam's emergency action plan revision of 28 December 2018 .
Utah's industrial water supplier register lists three sources for the Huntington power plant. Read them together and the role of this lake becomes exact .
| Source | Water right | Primary use | 2025 usage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electric Lake Reservoir | 93-1116 | "Power (Fossil-Fuel)" | 2,986.10 acre feet |
| Huntington Creek | 93-1115 | Power (Fossil-Fuel) | 6,819.00 acre feet |
| Huntington Plant potable well | 93-3773 | Domestic | 17.86 acre feet |
The note against the first line reads, verbatim: "Storage water used at Huntington Plant" . The reported split of that water is about 86 percent cooling, 12 percent processing and the rest domestic.
The dates line up in a way worth noticing. The dam was finished in 1974 , and the Huntington plant's first unit, 496 megawatts, was commissioned in 1974 as well . The second unit followed in 1977. The dam's recorded purpose in the national inventory is water supply, not power : there is no generating plant at the dam, and the electricity in the name is made twenty four miles downstream by burning coal. This page does not print a retirement year for the plant, because the published date has moved from 2036 to 2032 and back to 2036, and a more recent report was not confirmed .
Two agencies carry a condition assessment for this dam and they carry the same one. Utah records assessment rating: SATISFACTORY, with the detail "Meets applicable hydrologic and seismic regulatory criteria", and assessment date: 01/01/1991 . The national inventory records Satisfactory with a condition assessment date that decodes to 1 January 1991 .
What "high hazard" means, and what it does not. Hazard potential is a classification of consequences if the dam failed, not a statement about its condition. Utah's file names the first downstream town as Huntington, 24 miles away . The two ratings are independent: this dam is rated high hazard and satisfactory at the same time, and both are correct as the agencies use the words.
The inventory's emergency action plan fields do not close. The prepared flag is empty and the last revised date reads 28 December 2018 . Utah's file independently carries that same revision date plus a standard operating procedure revision of 22 March 2019 , so the plan exists and the empty flag is the error. The inventory also names a member of Congress who left that seat in January 2025, which this page does not print.
The national inventory's maximum discharge field for this dam reads 90 cubic feet a second . That field is the spillway capacity.
Utah's dam safety file lists two separate numbers :
| Utah's field | Value |
|---|---|
| Spillway maximum discharge | 2,300 cubic feet a second |
| Maximum outlet discharge | 90 cubic feet a second |
The two records also describe the spillway differently: the inventory says uncontrolled , Utah says drop inlet , and the engineering account describes a morning glory spillway with intake tower, valve chamber, outlet conduit and an impact type energy dissipation basin . Those are three levels of detail on one structure rather than three different answers, and all three are recorded here.
Four agencies publish a point for this dam or its gauge. Three of them agree closely and one does not.
| Source | Latitude | Longitude |
|---|---|---|
| Utah dam safety | 39.6005208 | -111.2115459 |
| The water survey lake gauge | 39.6007973 | -111.2121177 |
| The soil conservation service station | 39.60062 | -111.21204 |
| The national dam inventory | 39.60518266 | -111.2157291 |
Two more things this page had to settle rather than assume. First, the lake is wholly in Emery County. Its entire bounding extent was intersected against the current county boundary file and returned Emery and nothing else . Sanpete County is close, and Huntington Reservoir upstream is filed under Sanpete in the fishing guidebook , but the county line runs between the two. Second, the water surface is about 8,575 feet and the dam crest is 8,586 . The weather service's point elevation of 8,793 feet is a terrain grid value and is not this lake's elevation.
And there is a near name in the dam inventory, in another state. A nationwide search for every dam whose name contains the string electric returns twenty four, of which exactly one is in Utah . The one to watch is B+L Electric Lake Dam in Henry County, Missouri. Unlike the last two pages in this series, Utah does not hold a second dam of nearly this name.
0.513 milligrams a kilogram, on nine cutthroat
Higher than every trout figure in Utah's whole mercury document. And Scofield, twelve kilometres north, was sampled in the same round for the same two species and came back four to ten times cleaner.
Utah sampled three species at Electric Lake in 2021 and published the results in June 2023. The comparison line is stated in the document itself: "Mean mercury concentrations in fish fillet tissues were compared to EPA's screening value (SV) for mercury of 0.3 mg/kg" .
| Species | Fish sampled | Mean mg/kg | Range | Std dev | Over the screening value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cutthroat trout | 9 | 0.513 | 0.3 to 1 | 0.2 | Yes |
| Tiger trout | 10 | 0.450 | 0.1 to 0.9 | 0.3 | Yes |
| Kokanee | 10 | 0.194 | 0.1 to 0.3 | 0.06 | No |
The meal limits. These are maximum meals per month. WCB means women of childbearing age, 16 to 50 .
| Species | General public | Women of childbearing age, children 6 to 16 | Pregnant and breastfeeding women, children under 6 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cutthroat trout | 6 | 2 | Do not eat |
| Tiger trout | 7 | 2 | 1 |
Electric Lake is one of twelve waters on Utah's current advisory list, where its entry reads, exactly, "Electric Lake - Cutthroat trout and Tiger trout" . That list and the June 2023 document agree on the species here, which is not true of every water on it: on Starvation the list names one species and the document names two.
The third fish is the one that makes this section honest. Kokanee were sampled in the same round, ten of them, and came back at 0.194, below the screening value . That is why the advisory covers two species and not three, and it is why the kokanee is drawn on this page without a flag on it. Meal sizes on the state's own advisory sheet: 8 ounces for adults and for women of childbearing age, 4 ounces for pregnant women and children under six . Its own words: "You can't remove heavy metals like mercury by any cooking or cleaning methods."
This is the comparison that gives the numbers meaning. Scofield Reservoir is about twelve kilometres north. The state sampled it in the same 2021 round, reported it in the same table of the same document, and tested it for the same two species .
| Species | Electric Lake | Scofield | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cutthroat trout | 0.513, over the screening value | 0.122, under | 4.2 times |
| Tiger trout | 0.450, over | 0.045, under | 10.0 times |
And they are not the same water system, which is worth saying because the geography suggests otherwise. Electric Lake is in hydrologic unit 14060009, San Rafael ; Scofield is on the Price River, a different unit and a different river. Scofield has an approved load allocation on the state's list and Electric Lake has none . The only reason they look connected is the road: the boat ramp at the north end of Electric Lake is reached from the town of Scofield , and the water survey files this lake's own gauge as "ELECTRIC LAKE NEAR SCOFIELD, UT" . Proximity, not plumbing.
Utah classifies every named water for the uses it is protected for. In the Emery County table, Electric Lake reads 2B, 3A, 4, and the entry is bracketed by Cleveland Reservoir above and Huntington Reservoir below . A second, separately hosted reproduction of the rule gives the identical string, the identical county section and the identical two neighbours .
| Class | What it protects, verbatim |
|---|---|
| 2B | "Protected for infrequent primary contact recreation. Also protected for secondary contact recreation where there is a low likelihood of ingestion of water or a low degree of bodily contact with the water. Examples include, but are not limited to, wading, hunting, and fishing." |
| 3A | Cold water game fish and the aquatic life in their food chain |
| 4 | Agricultural use, irrigation and stock watering |
One caveat on the neighbour list, applied honestly. The full Emery County list runs Cleveland, Electric, Huntington, Huntington North, Joes Valley, Millsite. "Huntington Reservoir" before "Huntington North Reservoir" is out of strict alphabetical order, which is the test this series uses to catch invented lists. Here it fails on one adjacency out of five, the same pattern appears independently in another Utah document, and two separate reproductions returned the same two neighbours for Electric Lake, so the entry itself is solid. The full list is printed with the caveat rather than without it.
The shape at the top of this page was traced by hand for a print, then measured against the USGS water body polygon on its own coordinates, converted from web map metres to true metres by the cosine of the latitude.
| Measure | Traced outline | Federal polygon | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Proportion, width over length | 0.428 | 0.417 | 2.6 percent |
| Area, matched on width | 486 acres | 474 acres | 2.7 percent large |
| Area, stretched to fill on both axes | 499 acres | 474 acres | 5.3 percent large |
| Area, matched on length | 512 acres | 474 acres | 8.1 percent large |
Two and a half percent on proportion is a good result, second only to Lost Creek in this series, and a long way from Echo, where the same two measurements came out twenty nine percent apart. The federal extent runs 3.63 miles north to south and 1.51 miles across, and the water fills only fourteen percent of its own bounding box, which is the emptiest box in the series.
Traced from OpenStreetMap geometry under the Open Database License, and that credit travels with any public use of the shape. Four surface areas are published for this lake: 425 acres at spillway crest from Utah's dam file , 468.5 from the Forest Service , 468.8 from the federal water body dataset at high resolution and 475.7 from the same dataset at medium resolution , and the national inventory's surface area field is empty . The 425 is specifically at spillway crest, which is a different quantity, and the spread across the rest is under two percent. No maximum depth, mean depth or shoreline length is published for this lake by anyone.
The card at the top of this page reads from station 09UTELLK:UT:BOR. Its published metadata offers three durations: daily from 1 January 1900, monthly from 1 January 1900, and semimonthly from 21 January 2026 .
There is a second thing to say about that number, and the service says it itself. The monthly series carries a flag reading derived, and the daily series at the control station carries the same flag reading not derived . The daily reading is the observation; the monthly figure is worked out from it. The card above is therefore a derived monthly value and is labelled that way, which is not something this series has had to say before.
| Duration | What a value object contains | Returns data here |
|---|---|---|
| Daily | date and value | No |
| Monthly | month, year, value. No date | Yes |
| Semimonthly | month, monthPart, year, value. No date, and monthPart is a string where the others are integers | No |
And there is no snow station in this drainage. The whole San Rafael basin holds two active snow telemetry stations and three retired snow courses, and every one of them sits in the Cottonwood Creek or Ferron Creek sub basins . The nearest active one, Red Pine Ridge, is sixteen kilometres south southwest at 8,990 feet and is in a different sub basin. Any snowpack figure quoted for Electric Lake is borrowed, and this page does not quote one.
Where everything is
Eight places, one boat ramp, no state park, and two pins that are here to show you something that is missing.
There is no state park here. Recreation is a Forest Service matter, on the Manti-La Sal National Forest, Ferron Ranger District , and the developed footprint is one site.
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| The site | Electric Lake North Side Boating Site, at the north end |
| Facilities | A boat ramp, vault toilets, and no drinking water |
| Fee | Not stated as a fee site |
| Hours | Open 24 hours a day, with seasonal use given as beginning in May |
| Getting there, north end | From Scofield, south on state route 96, then state route 264 for about ten miles, then forest road 50222 for the last two thirds of a mile |
| Getting there, south end | State route 31, near the dam. No boat facilities at that end, and the access road along the southern shoreline is on PacifiCorp land |
What is not published, and therefore is not on this page. No motor or horsepower restriction was found in any source; the Forest Service page permits motorised and non motorised boating and states no limit . That is a not found and not a none exists, and part of the shoreline is private land which may carry rules of its own. Ice fishing is not addressed by any source retrieved. And no claim of year round road access is printed here: the Forest Service season note points the other way, on a road that tops out above 8,500 feet.
Huntington Creek rises on the Wasatch Plateau above this lake. The named headwater tributaries, from the fishing rules for the Left Fork, are Scad Valley Creek, Rolfson Creek, Lake Creek, Staker Creek, Millers Flat Creek and Paradise Creek , and the water survey has sites on three of them .
| Point | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Dam crest | 8,586 ft |
| The water surface | About 8,575 ft |
| Huntington Creek just below the lake | 8,275 ft |
| Huntington Creek near the town, 24 miles down | 6,420 ft |
Below the dam the creek runs down Huntington Canyon, past the coal fired plant this lake supplies, to the town of Huntington. From there it joins the San Rafael River, then the Green, then the Colorado . This is the Colorado side of the divide.
Utah's Emery County classification list is a short one and it is a useful map of what is around here .
| Water | Classes | What that means beside Electric Lake |
|---|---|---|
| Cleveland Reservoir | 2B, 3A, 4 | The entry immediately above. Same classes |
| Electric Lake | 2B, 3A, 4 | |
| Huntington Reservoir | 2B, 3A, 4 | The entry immediately below, and not upstream of this lake. It sits in the Left Fork Huntington Creek sub basin, which meets the headwaters unit this lake sits in only below both of them . Filed under Sanpete County in the fishing guidebook, which is how you can see the county line runs between the two |
| Huntington North Reservoir | 2A, 3B, 4 | Downstream, and a tier higher for recreation. It is also the only 3B water in the county table, meaning warm water game fish. This is the one with a state park on it |
| Joes Valley Reservoir | 2A, 3A, 4 | Also a tier higher |
| Millsite Reservoir | 1C, 2A, 3A, 4 | The only water in the county carrying the domestic supply class |
Also on this lake's doorstep, and named by the Forest Service on the same page as Electric Lake: Ferron Reservoir, Huntington Reservoir, Joes Valley Reservoir, Cleveland Reservoir, Gooseberry Reservoir and Muddy Creek . And the soil conservation service carries storage stations on Cleveland Lake, Huntington, Miller Flat, Huntington North, Joes Valley and Millsite, all in the same basin as this lake .
Three species, and the monitoring is private
There is no public fishery report for this lake because the company that owns the dam pays for the monitoring, and it happens every three years.
Cutthroat trout
Mean mercury 0.513 milligrams a kilogram on nine fish, which is higher than any trout figure anywhere in the state's document and 1.71 times the screening value. Six meals a month for the general public, two for women of childbearing age, and none at all for pregnant women or children under six. The Forest Service says this is what you are likely to catch here.
0.513 mg/kg. Do not eat if pregnantTiger trout
A brown trout and brook trout hybrid, and the Forest Service says the wildlife division stocks this lake with them. Mean mercury 0.450 on ten fish, 1.50 times the screening value, with the widest range of the three at 0.1 to 0.9. Seven meals a month, two, and one.
0.450 mg/kg. Stocked hereKokanee salmon
The reason this page can say the advisory covers two species and not three. Ten kokanee were sampled in the same round and came back at 0.194, below the 0.3 screening value, so there is no meal limit on them. No agency source found here says whether they are stocked or self sustaining.
0.194 mg/kg. Under the screening valueThree is the whole evidenced list, and that is not a shortcut. The state's 2021 mercury round put a needle into cutthroat trout, tiger trout and kokanee at this lake and nothing else . The Forest Service names two: "The Department of Wildlife Resources of Utah (DWR) stocks this lake with Tiger Trout. Likely to catch Cutthroat Trout in this lake." . Nothing else could be sourced.
So there is no catch rate, no length or weight distribution, no relative weight, no stocking table and no population trend published for this lake. The mercury sampling is the only fish data on this page with numbers in it, and it was collected for a health programme rather than a fisheries one.
Four things were chased and not established, and none is asserted here. Which subspecies the cutthroat are: the lake is in the Colorado River basin so Colorado River cutthroat is the geographically expected answer, but that is inference and no document says it, and the division's brood report returned an error. Whether the lake is a brood or egg take water. Any whirling disease history. And Blue Ribbon status, which is unresolved rather than negative: the division's page names no list and the application holding the list returns nothing . This page makes no Blue Ribbon claim in either direction.
Electric Lake is open to underwater spearfishing, and that is a real and unusual thing about it. But the number most often attached to it is wrong, and this page had to correct its own premise to get here.
The 2026 guidebook's page 19 list is headed "Waterbodies open to spearfishing" and reads, verbatim: "Only the waters listed below are open to underwater spearfishing for game fish year-round." Nine entries follow :
- Big Sand Wash Reservoir, Duchesne County
- Brown's Draw Reservoir, Duchesne County
- Causey Reservoir, Weber County
- Electric Lake, Emery County
- Grantsville Reservoir, Tooele County
- Porcupine Reservoir, Cache County
- Uinta Mountains, with a bulleted list of seventeen high elevation lakes
- Willard Bay Reservoir, Box Elder County
- Yuba Reservoir, Juab and Sanpete counties
The two lists reconcile, and the check is worth showing. Take the rule's forty two, keep only the entries with no exception, and collapse the seventeen Uinta lakes into one line as the guidebook does. What is left is exactly the guidebook's nine, plus five waters that qualify on the same test and are missing from the guidebook list for no stated reason: the Jordan River, Quail Creek, Red Fleet, Utah Lake and Utah Lake tributaries .
So the defensible statements are these. Electric Lake is one of forty two waters open to underwater spearfishing in Utah. It is one of a small set open for all game fish, all year, with no seasonal or species exception. And it is the only water in the Emery County and San Rafael drainage on either list, which is the genuinely distinctive one. One caveat on sourcing: the state's own rules site returned an error for this rule, so the forty two waters above rest on a single non agency reproduction , and the guidebook is the agency restatement . Check both before you plan a trip around it.
What to watch for
No incident at this lake could be found, and the one that keeps coming up in search results happened thirty miles downstream at a different reservoir.
No drowning, boating fatality, search and rescue call out, dive recovery or ice incident at Electric Lake could be found, from an agency or from the press.
The results that did come back are the reason this section exists. Searches for incidents at this lake return several accounts of a drowning at Huntington State Park, in Emery County, on Huntington Creek. Right county, right drainage, wrong water: Huntington State Park is on Huntington North Reservoir, about thirty miles downstream and 2,700 feet lower . None of those incidents happened here, and a list assembled from search results without opening each one would put them on this page.
Other results checked and rejected: incidents at Utah Lake, Lake Powell, Tibble Fork, a Herriman reservoir, Crane Lake and a Montana ice fishing death. Because no incident was found, no recovery method is reported either, which this page states rather than leaves silent, because the diver against sonar distinction is tracked across this series.
- This is 8,575 feet. Cold water year round, and the road in tops out higher than the lake .
- One boat ramp, at the north end, reached from Scofield. The dam end has no boat facilities .
- No drinking water at the site, and vault toilets only .
- Part of the shoreline is private. The southern access road is on PacifiCorp land .
- Two species here carry a fish consumption advisory, with a do not eat instruction for pregnant women and children under six on cutthroat trout .
Could not be found:
- Maximum depth, mean depth and shoreline length, from any source.
- Any fishery monitoring report, at four filename variants that work for other waters. Monitoring here is triennial and privately funded .
- The cutthroat subspecies, any brood or egg take role, and any whirling disease history.
- Blue Ribbon status, in either direction .
- Any impairment listing or assessment unit. The federal assessment interface returned an authorisation error, and the state's report delivers results through an interactive map .
- Any harmful algal bloom history. The state's bloom page does not name this lake , and the lake's own monitoring page is closed to automated reading.
- Any motor or horsepower restriction, and anything at all about ice fishing .
- Any geological mapping specific to this lake.
- A discharge permit for the power plant this lake supplies.
Pregnant women and children under six are told not to eat the cutthroat trout from this lake at all.
Fathom Restoration is a Utah 501(c)(3) that runs volunteer dive cleanups and is built to pull what does not belong out of Utah water, statewide.
Donate to Protect Electric LakeEvery figure on this page is quoted from the source named beside it.
Sources
How these were checked
Numbered sources are agencies. Lettered sources are everything else, and on this page two of them carry rules that Utah's own rules website would not return. Four things did not survive checking. The claim that this lake is one of only nine Utah waters open to spearfishing does not hold: the rule lists forty two, and the guidebook prints the subset with no exception clause. The national dam inventory's spillway discharge of 90 cubic feet a second is the outlet figure and is about a twenty fifth of the real spillway capacity. Three separate reads of the state's own advisory sheet for this lake produced three different meal limit tables, two of them wrong, and the limits printed here are taken from the source document instead. And three reads of one guidebook page produced three different lists of what is on it, so no page order is printed. Where agencies disagree, all of them are printed: that happens over the dam coordinates, the spillway capacity and type, the surface area, the drainage area, the elevation, and the last inspection date.Dam safety record UT00100, Pacificorp Electric Lake. Structural height 229 feet, crest 920 feet at elevation 8,586, spillway a drop inlet rated 2,300 cubic feet a second, storage 31,500 acre feet at spillway crest, hazard rating high, inspected annually and last on 10 June 2026
National Inventory of Dams, Pacificorp Electric Lake, federal identifier UT00100. Owner type private, state regulated yes, federally regulated no, condition assessment dated 1 January 1991, and a spillway discharge field carrying the outlet figure
National Inventory of Dams, every dam in the country whose name contains the string electric. Twenty four of them, exactly one in Utah, and one in Missouri with almost the same name
National Hydrography Dataset, Electric Lake, GNIS 01447801, reach code 14060009001002, area 1.897 square kilometres, water surface elevation 2,613.7 metres. The polygon this page measures its outline against
Industrial water supplier record, system 11095, PacifiCorp Huntington Power Plant. Water right 93-1116 on Electric Lake Reservoir, primary use Power, Fossil-Fuel, 2025 usage 2,986.10 acre feet, with the note that this is storage water used at the Huntington Plant
Fish mercury consumption advisories, June 2023. Table 2 gives the sample sizes, means, ranges and standard deviations for three species at Electric Lake; Table 4 gives the meal limits
Game and fish advisories. The current list of twelve Utah waters, on which Electric Lake is named for cutthroat trout and tiger trout
Electric Lake, guide to eating fish safely. The per water advisory sheet, its meal sizes and its wording
Utah water quality standards, classification of waters of the state, Emery County. Electric Lake is 2B, 3A and 4, between Cleveland Reservoir and Huntington Reservoir, and it carries no class 1C
Approved total maximum daily loads. Electric Lake does not appear on the list, and neither does Huntington Creek
2024 integrated report. Submitted 1 April 2024 and approved by the federal environmental agency on 30 April 2024, with assessment units delivered through an interactive map rather than a table
Harmful algal blooms. Electric Lake is not named anywhere on the page and the current advisory table reads none
Electric Lake storage, station 09UTELLK:UT:BOR, at 8,580 feet. It advertises daily, semimonthly and monthly series and only the monthly one returns anything
Stations in the San Rafael basin, hydrologic unit 14060009. Two active snow telemetry stations, neither in this drainage, plus the reservoir stations on the neighbouring creeks
Electric Lake near Scofield, lake site 09317800. Reservoir storage from 1 October 1985 to 29 September 2006 and nothing since
Water survey sites around Electric Lake. The site below the lake at 8,275 feet, the tributaries on the Left Fork, and the Huntington Creek station near the town
2026 Utah Fishing Guidebook. Electric Lake appears twice, on the page 19 list of waters open to underwater spearfishing and in the Huntington Creek entry that governs the water below the dam
Watershed Restoration Initiative project 7561, Electric Lake angler access improvement. The access road on private land, and the statement that the owner funds triennial fish population monitoring here
Electric Lake North Side Boating Site. A 468.5 acre lake, a boat ramp, vault toilets, no drinking water, and the road in from Scofield
Water activities on the Manti-La Sal National Forest. The seven waters the forest names, Electric Lake among them
Blue Ribbon fisheries. The programme is described, the designated waters are not enumerated on the page, and the application that holds the list returns nothing
Invasive quagga and zebra mussels. Utah's confirmed infestation is limited to Lake Powell and Electric Lake is not named
Point forecast for the dam. Forecast office Salt Lake City, zone area Wasatch Plateau and Book Cliffs, and a nearest place of Clearcreek in the next county
Watershed boundary dataset. Electric Lake is in hydrologic unit 140600090102, Headwaters Huntington Creek, inside hydrologic unit 14060009, San Rafael
Counties and equivalents, from the 2025 Census Bureau boundary file. The entire extent of the lake returns Emery County and nothing else
Protected areas database. The dam point falls inside the Manti-La Sal National Forest
Utah Administrative Code R317-2-13, classification of waters. The second reproduction this page used to confirm the class string, the county and the neighbouring entries
Utah Administrative Code R657-13-9, underwater spearfishing. The forty two waters, with Electric Lake at paragraph j and no exception clause. This is the only reproduction of the rule this page could obtain; the state's own rules site returned an error
Electric Lake Dam, physical modeling of the morning glory outlet works. A 1:14 scale model built for the owner's dam safety evaluations, presented in 2018
Huntington Power Plant. Two units of 496 and 541 megawatts, commissioned 1974 and 1977, and a retirement date that has moved three times
Why this number is monthly and not daily
Because the daily series does not exist, although the station says it does. Station 09UTELLK:UT:BOR advertises reservoir contents at daily, semimonthly and monthly durations . Asked for the daily series, it returns an empty list. Asked for semimonthly, the same. Only monthly returns values.
That was checked against a control rather than assumed. The identical query, pointed at a neighbouring reservoir station in the same basin, returns full daily and semimonthly data . The query form is right. This station's advertised series are simply not there.
The service also flags the monthly series as derived. At these stations the daily reading carries a flag reading not derived and the monthly and semimonthly values carry one reading derived . So the number above is worked out from readings rather than being a reading, and this page says so rather than presenting it as an observation.
The percentage divides by 31,500 acre feet, which is the storage at spillway crest in Utah's dam safety file and the normal storage field in the national inventory . Storage at dam crest is 35,500, four thousand acre feet higher, and using that denominator instead would lower every percentage on this page by about eleven percent of itself.
There is no flow card because there is no gauge. The water survey's own record for this lake ends on 29 September 2006 , the site immediately below the dam holds no published series , and the nearest active record on this creek is twenty four miles downstream past the power plant.