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Hidden Dam is the only major storage dam on the Fresno River. The dam forms Hensley Lake, a 90,000 acre-foot (110,000,000 m 3) reservoir. The United States Army Corps of Engineers built the earth-fill dam, which was completed in 1974. Its primary purpose is flood control, but it is also used to regulate flows for irrigation and groundwater ...
Hidden Dam is an earthen dam on the Fresno River in Madera County, California. It creates a reservoir known as Hensley Lake . The dam was constructed in 1974 (51 years ago) ( 1974 ) by the Perini Corporation as part of an expansive United States Army Corps of Engineers project for flood control , irrigation storage, and recreation .
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 . Dams in service
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Like seemingly everything involving the San Joaquin River Parkway and the state agency entrusted with assembling the 22-mile recreation and ecological corridor from Friant Dam to Highway 99, the ...
Opinion by Marek Warszawski: “Fresno’s only river campground is no longer in private hands, and not a moment too soon.” Day-drinking operator and drownings. Changes coming to Fresno river ...
Fresno Dam is a dam on the Milk River, a tributary of the Missouri River, upstream of Havre, Montana. The dam is part of the Milk River Project, owned by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation . It serves mainly to provide irrigation water and some of its capacity is also reserved for flood control.
Pine Flat Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Kings River in the Central Valley of Fresno County, California United States. Situated about 28 miles (45 km) east of Fresno, the dam is 440 feet (130 m) high and impounds Pine Flat Lake, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada just outside the boundary of Kings Canyon National Park.