Pacific Gas and Electric magazine . crease the same, in order to bringthe storage capacity more nearly up to theaverage annual water product of the tributarywatershed—if it were not for the necessity of having also to raise at considerable costthe two above mentioned subsidiary lowerspillway-dams. The ideal location of the proposed maindam in the precipitous narrow gorge of theYuba, with its practically homogeneous rockbluffs on both sides of the river, fully ex-cuses and justifies my above expressed desireof increasing the height of the dam above thecontemplated height of 300 feet. When, abou
Pacific Gas and Electric magazine . crease the same, in order to bringthe storage capacity more nearly up to theaverage annual water product of the tributarywatershed—if it were not for the necessity of having also to raise at considerable costthe two above mentioned subsidiary lowerspillway-dams. The ideal location of the proposed maindam in the precipitous narrow gorge of theYuba, with its practically homogeneous rockbluffs on both sides of the river, fully ex-cuses and justifies my above expressed desireof increasing the height of the dam above thecontemplated height of 300 feet. When, about seven years ago, I stood—like last week—on the rock bluff, the mainbody of which will form the southerly abut-ment of the proposed arch-shaped dam, Icould not help feeling and expressing delightat seeing one of the most admirably formeddam sites, that I had ever beheld—admirableboth from a topographical as well as geo-logical point of view. The dam, in all probability will be builtwith the system of interlocking. Keystone. Camp Boardman, a ditch camp below Bear Lake
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