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Rodgers Crossing Dam

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During the 1980s, the Rodgers Crossing dam was dropped due to poor economic justifications, and pushback from conservationists and the tourism sector who did not want to see the Kings River, a popular whitewater run, flooded by a reservoir. In 1987, a compromise was reached as the Kings River was
39:. The project was pushed during the 1960s and 1970s by the Kings River Conservation District (KRCD) to provide flood control and irrigation water supply. The estimated annual yield would be 100,000 acre-feet (0.12 km). 70:, with the Rodgers Crossing dam site placed under "unified federal protection" that would require an act of Congress to overturn if the dam were to be built in the future. 215: 577: 79: 50:
640 feet (200 m) high, which would have formed a reservoir flooding 11 miles (18 km) of the Kings River, nearly up to the boundary of
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is unable to provide the high degree of flood protection for which it was originally built. The original plan called for a concrete
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The purpose was to nearly double the storage capacity on the Kings River, as the existing
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Kings River
Central California
Fresno County
Sierra Nevada
Fresno
Pine Flat Dam
gravity dam
Kings Canyon National Park
hydroelectric
megawatts
National Wild and Scenic Rivers System
List of dams and reservoirs in California


"Rodgers Crossing"
"Upper San Joaquin River Basin Storage Investigation: Rodgers Crossing Reservoir"
"Long Live the Kings"
"Kings River to Get Federal Protection in Compromise Bill"
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Tulare Basin hydrography
Kings River
North Fork Kings River
South Fork Kings River
Middle Fork Kings River
Roaring River
Dinkey Creek
Kings Canyon
Pine Flat Dam

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