Despite the recent heavy rains, the crews at the Calaveras
Dam Replacement Project have been pouring concrete for an important feature
of the future Dam – the stream maintenance building, pictured below. The
new building stands 25 feet tall and is located downstream at the toe of
the future replacement dam.
We at the SFPUC will be releasing water from the future
Calaveras Dam to support fish in the Southern Alameda Creek Watershed.
What’s that have to do with this building? A lot, actually. The
stream maintenance structure provides a place for water discharged out of the
future Dam to be collected and then discharged in a controlled manner to the
nearby Creeks to support fish habitat. Water will flow from the reservoir
to the structure via two 30 inch diameter pipes. Water will exit the structure
over grouted rip rap to prevent erosion.
The Calaveras Dam Replacement project is more than 80% complete
and expected to be completed in mid-2019.
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