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Los Padres Dam Carmel River: Monterey: California American Water Company: 1949 Earth 148 45 1,775 [8] 2,189 Los Vaqueros Reservoir (expanded) Los Vaqueros Dam: off stream reservoir storing Delta diversions: Contra Costa: Contra Costa Water District: 2012 [9] Earth: 218: 70: 160,000: 200,000 Lower Bear River Reservoir: Lower Bear River Dam: Bear ...
The Van Norman Dams, also known as the San Fernando Dams, were the terminus of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, supplying about 80 percent of Los Angeles' water, [5] until they were damaged in the 1971 San Fernando earthquake and were subsequently decommissioned due to the inherent instability of the site and their location directly above heavily populated areas.
East Fork North Fork Trinity River: Lone Jack Dam 24 ft (7.3 m) Todd Dam 14 ft (4.3 m) 1949 Trinity Cty. Water & Power Co. Dam 10 ft (3.0 m) 1946 East Fork Trinity River: North Fork Placers Dam 15 ft (4.6 m) 1950 North Fork Trinity River: Whites Gulch Upper Dam 2008 Etna
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. ... the flow from Terminus Dam into ...
With a height of 112 ft (34 m) and holding 2,400 acre⋅ft (3,000,000 m 3) of water, it was the tallest multiple-arch reinforced concrete dam in the world at the time. [6] The dam's design combined with its record height was highly controversial; [7] the state mandated renovations in 1932, in which concrete buttresses were added to the dam face ...
The removal of four Klamath River dams along the California-Oregon border is in the spotlight — and for good reason. It is the largest dam removal in our nation’s history and represents the ...
The dam and reservoir receive water from a catchment area totaling 64 square miles (170 km 2), controlling water from about two-thirds of the Santiago Creek watershed. Santiago Dam is designed to contain up to a 50-year flood and withstand a 500-year flood of over 30,000 cubic feet per second (850 m 3 /s).
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 ...