About
LocationOR
RegionHarney County
Managed byUS Bureau of Reclamation
SizeLarge — multiple days
Acres2,548 acres

Warm Springs Reservoir is a reservoir on the boundary between Harney and Malheur counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is located 13 miles southwest of Juntura at an elevation of 3,406 feet. The lake's primary inflow and outflow are both the Malheur River. The 106-foot-tall and 469-foot-long thin-arch concrete Warm Springs Dam was built from 1918 to 1919 by the Warm Springs Irrigation District, and was later modified in 1930 and 1939 with the help of the United States Bureau of Reclamation. It was constructed from 19,500 cubic yards of material on top of a series of olivine basalt lava flows. The resultant 8.5-by-1.3-mile reservoir has a maximum area of 4,194 acres, a maximum volume of 169,714 acre-feet, and a maximum depth of 140 feet. It has a shore length of about 34.5 miles and a residence time of about 2.2 years. Warm Springs Reservoir's watershed covers approximately 1,059.5 square miles of eastern Oregon. It receives an average precipitation of 17.5 inches. As of the 2000 Census, there were 157 people living within the watershed's boundaries. The predominant wildlife in the region is mule deer and various waterfowl. Bass, bluegill, and rainbow trout are the main fish found in the reservoir. The reservoir is classified as eutrophic, with a transparency of about 3.3 feet.

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