Winter at Calaveras Dam

There is plenty of work happening during this winter season at the Calaveras Dam Replacement Project.  Although our construction team is not working on the dam’s embankment, they're keeping busy with other important construction projects that need to be completed before spring. Here is a glimpse of the work in progress.

Our team is working hard to construct some of the support facilities. Support facilities such as: the stream maintenance vault, the downstream toe electrical building and all of the electrical equipment are needed to operate the outlet works.


V34 Vault


Electrical Panels for Stream Maintenance Vault


Electrical Panel in Downstream Toe Building

Our team continues to prepare the left abutment foundation. Part of this job entails removing a temporary tieback retaining wall. This temporary tieback retaining wall was needed during the construction of the spillway to support an ancient landslide.



Tie Backs

During the past two weeks, our team has been working hard installing the last of our piezometers. For more information on our internal and external instrumentation, reference our November 7, 2017 and December 15, 2017 blog posts.



Drill Rig for Insturmentation



Piezometer

Our crew is working hard to finish these projects before the spring time. As you can see, there is a lot of activity happening in the winter months.

See you around the valley!