Eastman Lake
The lake formed in 1975 from the construction of Buchanan Dam across the Chowchilla River as a flood control and irrigation project of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. The earthen dam, 218 feet (66 m) high with a length of 1,746 feet (532 m) at the crest, impounding a maximum capacity of 150,000 acre-feet of Chowchilla River water in the reservoir, is owned and operated by the Corps.
The damsite was proposed for one of Project Plowshare's nuclear excavation projects, with a 10-kiloton nuclear explosion proposed under Project Travois for 1970 to create about 2,000,000 cubic yards (1,500,000 m) of aggregate for dam construction. The proposal was abandoned, and the dam was constructed by conventional means.
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References
- ^ "Dams Owned and Operated by Federal Agencies" (PDF). California Department of Water Resources. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 5, 2012. Retrieved October 1, 2012.
- ^ "H.V. Eastman Lake". Archived from the original on 2012-11-12. Retrieved 2012-08-03.
- ^ Beck, Colleen M.; Edwards, Susan R.; King, Maureen L. (2011-09-01). "Project Travois". The Off-Site Plowshare and Vela Uniform Programs: Assessing Potential Environmental Liabilities through an Examination of Proposed Nuclear Projects,High Explosive Experiments, and High Explosive Construction Activities (PDF) (Report). Vol. 1. pp. 3-259–3-262. doi:10.2172/1046575.
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