Idaho
Water Facts
State Water
Surface Area ------------------------------------ 880 Square Miles
¿ Number Of Lakes ------------------------------------------- More Than 2,000
¿ Largest Lake -- Pend Oreille -------------------------------- 148 Square Miles
¿ Deepest Lake -- Pend Oreille ------------------------------- More Than 1,100
Feet
¿ Highest Waterfall--------------------- 600 feet, Big Fiddler Creek, Boise
River Basin
¿ Miles Of Streams and Rivers -------------------------------- 93,000 Miles
¿ Longest River -- Snake River ------------------------------- 779 Miles
¿ Average Annual Precipitation --------Varies From Less than 10 to More than
60 Inches
¿ Most Precipitation in 24-Hour Period----- 7.7" of rain, Rattlesnake Creek,
Idaho, 1909
¿ Annual Stream Inflow to State ------------------------------ About 37 Million
Acre-feet
¿ Annual Stream Outflow to State----------------------------- About 75 Million
Acre-feet
¿ Irrigated Area of State -------------------------------------- 4 Million Acres
¿ Highest Dam----------------------------- Dworshak, North Fork Clearwater,
717 feet.
¿ Active Reservoir Storage Capacity ------------------------- 12,384,000 Acre-feet
¿ Largest Active Storage Reservoir -- Dworshak ------------- 2,016,000 acre-feet
¿ Snake Plain Aquifer Storage -- Top 100 Feet of Aquifer -- About 100 Million
Acre-feet