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Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in California in a sortable table. There are over 1,400 named dams and 1,300 named reservoirs in the state of California.
Prado Dam is an earth-fill dry dam across the Santa Ana River at the Chino Hills near Corona, California in Riverside County with the resulting impounded water creating Prado Flood Control Basin reservoir. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built the dam in Lower Santa Ana River Canyon.
Shasta Dam (called Kennett Dam [3] before its construction) is a concrete arch-gravity dam [4] across the Sacramento River in Northern California in the United States. At 602 feet (183 m) high, it is the eighth-tallest dam in the United States .
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers just opened up two California dams. A spokesperson says the flows are 'controlled' and being coordinated with local officials.
Dam Height Expected year Location Watercourse Watershed Notes Copco Number 1 Dam: 132 ft (40 m) 2024 Siskiyou County: Klamath River: Klamath River: After more than 20 years of advocacy from the Un-Dam the Klamath movement, three dams on the Klamath River in California are expected to be removed by November 2024. [8]
The removal of the four dams, which were built without tribes’ consent between 1912 and the 1960s, has cleared the way for California to return more than 2,800 acres of ancestral land to the ...
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Work on the dam removal project began in June. The smallest dam, Copco No. 2, was torn down by crews using heavy machinery. The other three dams are set to be dismantled next year, starting with a ...