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| Photo via USACE The dam is 429' (131m) tall, and the flood control capacity is 1,000,000 acre feet. "The Jeff L. Taylor hydroelectric power plant was completed in 1984." [I could not find any information on the power plant.] |
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| safe_image for Cracks and hacks: Water supply at risk "WATER RUSHES out of Pine Flat Dam on the Kings River in Fresno County. California officials say they’re taking steps to protect the state’s water systems from hackers, terrorist attacks and natural disasters. (Robert Gauthier Los Angeles Times)" |
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| Ray Czaplewski, Jul 2017, cropped |
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| KVPR The dam can exceed its 1,000,000 acre-feet capacity because it has a 10' (3m) "surcharge pool." The outflow was 15kcfs and that was causing minor flooding downstream. |
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| Kings River Concervation District $638m is needed to increase the height by 12' (3.7m) to add 120,700 more acre feet of storage. |
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| CalMatters, Photo by the California Department of Water Resources "A water release from the concrete gravity Pine Flat Dam built on the Kings River in Fresno County in 1967." This is one of the largest reservoirs in California. The Kings River is one of the rivers that feeds Tulare Lake. |
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