 At the time of its construction in the early 1950s, Lucky Peak's primary purpose was flood control, with a secondary purpose of The normal operating elevation of the full reservoir is above sea level, the empty reservoir's elevation (Boise River) is 

Construction began in November 1949 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; the dam was operational in 1955 and its resulting reservoir is Lucky Peak Lake.Most of the federal dams in southern Idaho, including the others on the Boise River, were built by the Bureau of Reclamation, not the Corps of Engineers.The Idaho Power Company, a private utility, built multiple hydroelectric dams on the 

Located along State Highway 21, upstream from the city of Boise, it was built without hydroelectric power generation.