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The first of five projects created from the Reclamation Act was the Truckee–Carson Project, later renamed the Newlands Project, as Representative Newlands had been the bills main figurehead. [5] Construction for the Newlands Project began in 1903 [10] and they quickly made progress on building the Derby Dam and the Truckee Canal.
Truckee is an incorporated town in Nevada County, California, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 16,180, ...
Boca Reservoir is an artificial lake in Nevada County, California, United States, located in the perimeter covered by Tahoe National Forest.It was created by the construction of Boca Dam across Little Truckee River, approximately 10 km northeast of Truckee.
The Tahoe Truckee Area Regional Transit (TART) is the primary provider of mass transportation in the north shore Lake Tahoe region of north central California and northwestern Nevada. [ 5 ] TART is partially funded by RTC Washoe .
Constructed in the 1960s, the community consists of over 1,500 homes adjacent to a series of canals. Its construction destroyed half of the Upper Truckee Marsh, the primary filter for river water entering the lake, and has since been called the most environmentally damaging intrusion on the lakeshore in Lake Tahoe's human history. [2]
A pair of back-to-back storms were forecast to dump heavy snow and rain over parts of the Pacific Northwest, northern California and the Rockies this week, triggering winter storm and flood warnings.
A Florida man is accused of stabbing his estranged girlfriend up to 70 times during a fatal break-in - exactly one month after he was nabbed for assaulting the victim and ordered to stay away from ...
Situated at an elevation of 5,528 ft (1,685 m) above sea level, Boca is located on the Southern Pacific Railroad, 6.5 miles (10.5 km) northeast of Truckee [1] [2] at exit 194 from Interstate 80 onto Hirschdale Road.