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Aerial view of the Santa Ana River and the dam. Seven Oaks Dam is a 2,980-foot (910 m) long arched embankment structure standing 550 feet (170 m) high above the Santa Ana River and 650 feet (200 m) above its deepest foundations. The dam is 40 feet (12 m) wide at the crest and over 2,200 feet (670 m) wide at the base.
The reservoir is formed by Seven Oaks Dam, which was completed in 1999. The United States Army Corps of Engineers built the zoned earth-and-rock-fill dam at the foot of the San Bernardino Mountains to protect against flooding in the eastern portion of the Greater Los Angeles Area. Its maximum height is 550 feet (170 m) above the pre-existing ...
Downstream of the dam it receives Siberia Creek from the left, and plunges suddenly into a steep and narrow canyon, and empties into the Santa Ana River just upstream of Seven Oaks Dam, which in wet years, impounds water on the Santa Ana River past the Bear Creek confluence.
Along the main stem, this zone begins at the base of Seven Oaks Dam and ends at the Lytle Creek confluence. [32] This segment of the Santa Ana River just downstream of Seven Oaks Dam marks the beginning of the inland riparian zone. Historically, the Santa Ana was named "the best stream in Southern California [for steelhead trout habitat]". [40]
Seven Oaks is an unincorporated mountain community in the San Bernardino Mountains. It sits by the Santa Ana River, 7 miles northeast of Angelus Oaks. Seven Oaks Road leads to the neighboring community of Pinezanita, 3.5 miles west of Seven Oaks. It is located 4 miles off Highway 38. [2]
The Seven Oaks Camp was established on the banks of the Santa Ana River in 1890, and resorts also grew up at Crestline and Running Springs in higher regions of the San Bernardino Mountains. [52] Snow in the San Bernardinos was seen as an obstacle before the 1920s and practically shut down recreation in the winter.
Kern County deputy sheriffs and search and rescue workers retrieve a dead body from the Keyesville South area of the Kern River, in Lake Isabella, Calif., on July 1, 2017.
St. Francis Dam (1926–1928) - failed March 12, 1928 San Clemente Dam - intentionally removed in 2015-2016 because of environmental issues Van Norman Dams (1911–1971) - failed February 9, 1971, in 1971 San Fernando earthquake