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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
The dam failed catastrophically in 1928, killing at least 431 people in the subsequent flood, [2] [3] in what is considered to have been one of the worst American civil engineering disasters of the 20th century and the third-greatest loss of life in California history. [4] [5] [6] The dam was built to serve the growing water needs of the city ...
Folsom Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the American River of Northern California in the United States, about 25 mi (40 km) northeast of Sacramento. The dam is 340 ft (100 m) high and 1,400 ft (430 m) long, flanked by earthen wing dams.
C. Calaveras Dam; Calero Dam (Santa Clara County, California) Calero Reservoir; Camanche Dam; Camp Far West Dam; Canyon Dam (California) Cape Horn Dam; Carbon Canyon Dam
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 ...
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 ...
In 1922, the dam was raised 18 feet (5.5 m) with rolled fill. [1] [4] The Lower Van Norman Dam was constructed with hydraulic and rolled fill. Hydraulic fill height was about 102.4 feet (31.2 m), while rolled fill was added at least five times in the dam's history, each time increasing the dam's height, totaling 39.6 feet (12.1 m) rolled fill.
“California Governor Gavin Newsom proudly talking about the ‘largest dam removal in US history,’” the account tweeted, also sharing the same video. “The dismantling of four hydroelectric ...