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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
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.
Stevens, Joseph E. Hoover Dam. University of Oklahoma Press, 1988. details on the Salton Sea; Stringfellow, Kim Greetings from the Salton Sea: Folly and Intervention in the Southern California Landscape, 1905–2005. Columbia College Chicago Press, 2005. ISBN 978-1-935195-32-0; Trover, Ellen Lloyd (2018). "The Imperial Valley and the Salton Sink".
The reservoir has a capacity of 197,756 acre⋅ft (243,928,000 m 3) and is formed by Twitchell Dam on the Cuyama River about 66 miles (106 km) from its headwaters in the Chumash Wilderness Area. About 7 miles (11 km) below the dam, outflow joins the Sisquoc River near Garey, CA to form the Santa Maria River .
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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 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 ...
That's about 100 feet below its level in August 2003 and about 180 feet below its record elevation of 1,225 feet, reached in July 1983. When the level falls to 950 feet, the lake can no longer ...