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State Route 1 (SR 1) is a major north–south state highway that runs along most of the Pacific coastline of the U.S. state of California. At 656 miles (1,056 km), it is the longest state route in California, and the second-longest in the US after Montana Highway 200 .
On May 20, 2017, the largest slide in the highway's history at Mud Creek blocked the road 1 mile (1.6 km) southeast of Gorda or about 60 miles (97 km) south of Monterey. The slide began 1,100 feet (340 m) up the side of the mountain and dumped an estimated 5,000,000 cubic yards (3,800,000 m 3 ), [ 86 ] or about 1.5 million tons of dirt, on to ...
Loch Lomond (California) Newell Creek Dam: Newell Creek: Santa Cruz: Santa Cruz Water Dept. [7] 1960: Earth: 190 58: 9,200: 11,300 Loon Lake: Loon Lake Dam: Gerle Creek: El Dorado: Sacramento Municipal Utility District: 1963: Rock-fill: 108: 33: 76,500: 94,500 Lopez Lake: Lopez Dam: Arroyo Grande Creek: San Luis Obispo: San Luis Obispo County ...
A drop structure, also known as a grade control, sill, or weir, is a manmade structure, typically small and built on minor streams, or as part of a dam's spillway, to pass water to a lower elevation while controlling the energy and velocity of the water as it passes over.
This is a route-map template for the Sacramento River, a waterway in the United States.. For a key to symbols, see {{waterways legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
Opinion by Marek Warszawski: “When the reservoir is expanded, the new water level will be one foot below Highway 152.” Valley commuters told ‘nothing’ of California dam project’s freeway ...
The Sacramento Weir is opened manually when the Sacramento River reaches 27.5 feet (8.4 m) at the I Street Bridge. It was built in 1916 by the City of Sacramento and contains 48 gates over its 1,920-foot (590 m) length; water from the Sacramento Weir flows through the 1 mile (1.6 km) long Sacramento Bypass and drains into the Yolo Bypass. [6]
California Historic Parkways are defined in the Streets and Highways Code, sections 280–284, as a subset of the State Scenic Highway System. Such historic parkways must have been constructed prior to 1945, and have been determined by either Caltrans or the Office of Historic Preservation in the California Department of Parks and Recreation to ...