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The woman was pulled from the river by Cal Fire personnel south of the Foresthill Bridge near the confluence of the American River’s north and middle forks just after noon, according to Sgt ...
Metro Fire, @FolsomFire, @SacRegionalPark, Sacramento Drowning Accident Rescue Team- DART, and @sacsheriff are coordinating a response at the American River. 1 adult male was rafting down the ...
The California Highway Patrol was investigating a fatal single-vehicle crash Thursday morning when a big rig hauling about 2,000 pounds of gravel struck a hillside along Highway 49 in Placer County.
View of the American River from below the Guy West Bridge on the Sacramento State campus. The American River is a 30-mile-long (50 km) river in California that runs from the Sierra Nevada mountain range to its confluence with the Sacramento River in downtown Sacramento. Via the Sacramento River, it is part of the San Francisco Bay watershed.
The Middle Fork American River watershed encompasses 616 square miles (1,600 km 2), which represents about 33 percent of the total American River drainage basin above Folsom Lake. [2] The Rubicon River is the largest tributary watershed, at 315.4 sq mi (817 km 2 ), which is nearly three times the size of the Middle Fork's own drainage area ...
The North Fork Dam also serves as a 15 MW, 40 GWh run-of-river hydroelectric project. [4] Lake Clementine was created when the construction of the dam was completed. The reservoir has a capacity of 14,700 acre-feet, and a surface area of 280 acres.
The pre-dam river channel wended its way several miles to its confluence with the Middle Fork of the American River near Ralston Afterbay. Now, In addition to releases from Hell Hole down the pre-dam path, water is diverted through a pipeline to Middle Fork Powerhouse (AKA Stephenson Powerhouse) where it flows into Interbay Reservoir.
The park, featuring a manmade lake, opened for public swimming on the Fourth of July in 1966. It was named for Kilroy, the first soldier from the township who was killed in the Vietnam War, in May ...