News Release: A View of Folsom Dam’s Expanding Flood Protection
From the California Department of Water Resources (DWR):
“The Central Valley Flood Protection Board refreshed its mission earlier this year and created its first-ever strategic plan as a road map to achieve the Board’s goal of reducing the risk of catastrophic flooding in the Central Valley. On that map is the Folsom Dam Joint Federal Project, which the board visited on September 27 for a briefing on a new auxiliary 2,400-foot spillway, a control structure with submerged gates and a 1,100-foot approach channel. … Led by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the CVFPB, DWR and the Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency, the project is scheduled for completion in 2017.”
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