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The Kings River ( Spanish: Río de los Santos Reyes ), is a 132.9-mile (213.9 km) [ 2] river draining the Sierra Nevada mountain range in central California in the United States. Its headwaters originate along the Sierra Crest in and around Kings Canyon National Park and form the eponymous Kings Canyon, one of the deepest river gorges in North ...
New Don Pedro Dam, often known simply as Don Pedro Dam, is an earthen embankment dam across the Tuolumne River, about 2 miles (3.2 km) northeast of La Grange, in Tuolumne County, California. The dam was completed in 1971, after four years of construction, to replace the 1924 concrete-arch Don Pedro Dam . The dam serves mainly for irrigation ...
James Clair Flood (October 25, 1826 – February 21, 1889 [1]) was an American businessman who made a fortune thanks to the Comstock Lode in Nevada. His mining operations are recounted to this day as an outstanding example of what may be done with a rich ore body and a genius for stock manipulation. Flood piled up millions as one of the famed ...
The bond has about 1.5 time the money for wildfire and forest resilience needs, for example, than flood control. “The (climate change) problem is so big, people don’t know where to start half ...
Data from NFIP shows only 52,400 homes and businesses are covered by flood insurance in the eight Southern California counties declared a disaster area because of this storm. That’s less than 1% ...
The levee breach that left an entire California town underwater this weekend is putting a spotlight on how the state's vital flood control infrastructure is being weakened by age, drought, climate ...
The California Department of Water Resources's schematic map of the Yolo Bypass, 2009. Congress approved the Sacramento River Flood Control Project in 1911, with a plan to divert the water through multiple weirs and bypasses. The Yolo Bypass is one of two major bypasses in the Sacramento Valley that helps deter urban flooding.
Pine Flat Dam. / 36.83222°N 119.32611°W / 36.83222; -119.32611. 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 ...