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The St. Francis Dam Disaster Revisited Nunis Jr., Doyce B. Ed. Historical Society of Southern. ISBN 0-914421-13-1. Wiley, Andrew Jackson; et al. (1928). Report of the Commission appointed by Governor C. C. Young to investigate the causes leading to the failure of the St. Francis dam near Saugus California. California State Printing Office.
Oroville Dam, an important part of the California State Water Project, is an earthen embankment dam on the Feather River, east of the city of Oroville in Northern California. The dam is used for flood control, water storage, hydroelectric power generation, and water quality improvement in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta. [1]:
Baldwin Hills Reservoir after 1963 failure, view south. The gash through the dam corresponds to the alignment of a fault. The Baldwin Hills Dam disaster occurred on December 14, 1963 (61 years ago) () in the Baldwin Hills neighborhood of South Los Angeles, when the dam containing the Baldwin Hills Reservoir suffered a catastrophic failure and flooded the residential neighborhoods surrounding it.
Lake Kaweah, near Visalia, was roughly 21% full and similarly dropped to 19% of capacity over the weekend. Federal records show that more than 2 billion gallons were released from the reservoirs ...
Opinion by Marek Warszawski: “When the reservoir is expanded, the new water level will be one foot below Highway 152.”
Surging rivers. Sliding rocks. Flooded towns. The 11th atmospheric river storm of the season left a trail of soggy misery in California as it broke decades-old rainfall records and breached levees ...
Austin Dam failure (Pennsylvania) Austin Dam failure (Texas) ... State of California; R. Rockdale, Iowa; S. St. Francis Dam; Silver Lake Dam (Michigan) South Fork Dam;
A national push to "rewild" looks to restore natural environments that might help mitigate the effects of climate change.