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Some lake users say more can be done to keep the lake close to full pool, but the dam operator says sacrifices are necessary.
An engineering consultant recently informed the City of Boiling Spring Lakes that work would have to be stopped at the Pine ...
Today, Pine Flat Lake continues to draw hundreds of thousands of visitors each year. It was formed by the construction of Pine Flat Dam, a 429-foot-tall structure on the Kings River.
The Pine Flat Dam raise is one of 159 feasibility studies for USACE water resources projects, including 16 in California, each of which will be competing for dollars.
Completed in 1954 to impound the Kings River about 25 miles east of Fresno, Pine Flat Dam stands 440 feet tall. The study will evaluate whether to make the concrete gravity dam 12 feet taller ...
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The dam would be raised by 24 feet and a 700-foot saddle dam would be built to help accommodate water storage. That would increase capacity from 150,000 acre feet to 200,000 acre feet, said Tomlinson.
FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Officials say Pine Flat Lake is almost at capacity after water was released from Pine Flat Dam and it's not expected to exceed its authorized capacity. On July 3 ...
Pine Flat Lake, a large size 1 million acre-feet reservoir designed to hold water for agriculture, hydroelectric power, and flood control was at 26% capacity on July 8, 2021, thirty minutes east ...
Pine Flat dam is showing releases over the dam spillway on Wednesday, July 19, 2023 with the lake reaching capacity after historic Sierra Nevada snowfall last winter and spring.
Pine Flat Lake stores 1 million acre-feet of water, nearly twice as much as Millerton, and in its seven decades has never exceeded capacity. When lake levels reach 85%, as was the case three weeks ago ...