Lake Tahoe Dam - Tahoe City, CA
N 39° 10.025 W 120° 08.641
10S E 746742 N 4339204
Lake Tahoe Dam is the only dam at Lake Tahoe and controls water flow from Lake Tahoe into the Truckee River.
Waymark Code: WMTPY6
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 12/26/2016
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The original National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form in PDF format is not on the NPS.gov website and the digital file from other web resources is illegible. The following verbiage is taken from
Wikipedia to describe this dam's history:
Lake Tahoe Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Truckee River, at the outlet of Lake Tahoe in Placer County, California.
The dam is located in Tahoe City and serves as the main storage facility for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's Newlands Project that also includes the Lahontan Dam and two diversion dams, providing irrigation water for 55,000 acres (22,000 ha) of cropland mainly in the Lahontan Valley of western Nevada. The present Lake Tahoe dam replaced an older, privately owned dam built in 1870 at roughly the same location.
The dam was built between 1909 and 1913 and stands 18.2 ft (5.5 m) high and 109 ft (33 m) long, raising Lake Tahoe by up to 10.1 ft (3.1 m). Outflows from the dam are regulated by a gated spillway with 17 bays, with a maximum release capacity of 2,100 cubic feet per second (59 m3/s). The reservoir receives water from a catchment of 505 sq mi (1,310 km2) and has a maximum storage capacity of 732,000 acre·ft (0.903 km3). The dam was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 25, 1981.
Lake Tahoe Dam celebrated its 100-year anniversary in 2013. A small celebration was held in August 2013 with local Native American Washoe tribe members and other local individuals noting its history.