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Camanche Dam

Mollydam (talk) 07:38, 14 March 2016 (UTC)Hello fellow Wikipedians, I'm planning to build/modify this page for my Environmental studies courses at Sac State. I) Introduction of Camanche Dam

  In this section, I would like to introduce the geography and capacity  of Camanche Dam. 
  Secondly, the purpose of building this dam and what company was it owned by?

II) History

   Tell more details about the history of Camanche Dam, and why it was named ghost town? 
   How was the town related to gold mining during gold rush? what were the population that lived in this place?
   How was the dam inundated this little small town? The communites of lancha Plana, Poverty bar. 

III) Hydrology

   Describe how does it associate with stream flow with Mokelume River, Rabbit creek, and Camanche creek.
   Intending to do more research how does it associate with other lakes or rivers in california. 

IV) Recreation

   More information about the activities about camanche Dam
   Provides more update news for readers. 

Feedback request

Hi Mollydam. I saw your request for feedback. What can I help you with? Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:50, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

Outline feedback

Hi Molly,

I see that you are wanting to settle on Camanche Dam for your project. Kevin had already requested it so unless you two can figure out how to both get projects out of it, I suggest you choose another topic. I looked back at your email and the other ones on your list that nobody else is working on are: San Luis Reservoir, Tulare lake, Briones reservoir, Bear Gulch Reservoir, and Lake siskiyou. Your outline looks good otherwise, so just let me know when you've figured out which way you want to go.

Julianfulton (talk) 20:38, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Camanche Dam

I. Introduction

    Camanche Dam is an earthfill Dam on the Mokelume River in the central California, about 20 mi(32km) from East Loli. The Dam and reservoir lie in the Sierra Nevada foothill in San Joaquin County. Camanche Dam was constructed in 1963 and completed in 1964. Camanche Dam is owed, operated, maintained by East Bay Municipal Utilities District ( EBMUD). Camanche Dam and reservoir provide flood control storage, flows for agriculture, fisheries and recreation. Camanche Dam is also the upstream limit of anadromous salmonid migration.

II. Capacity

    The dam impounds Camanche reservoir. The capacity of Camanche Dam is approximately 431,000 acre feet (0.532 km3) with 200,000 acre feet (0.25 km3) of the flood control reservation. This reserved for flood storage can be shared with Pardee Dam just upstream. The dam is 173-foot-high and 2,640-foot-long dam located on the Mokelumne River which is about 10 miles downstream from Pardee Dam. Since Camanche Dam has a 627-square-mile drainage area which is accounting about 95 percent of the watershed, therefore Camanche Dam and reservoir provide flood damage reduction on the Mokelumne River. Camanche Dam and reservoir also are operated to maintian downstream water requirements. 

III.Purpose

    Before the dam was built, it costs a lot of money to maintain flood control along Mokelumne river. The most destructive flood in November 1950 along the. Mokelumne river resulted approximately $1.1 million in damage. Another flood in December 1955 thru January 1956 created nearly $750,000 in damage. The largest flood record in December 1964 along the Mokelumne River. After the completion of Camanche Dam in April 1964, the damage was limited to several thousand dollars. Early 1964, the Camanche Dam's operation had further reduced in spring flows and slightly increased in summer and fall flows below Camanche Dam. 
    Since the completion of Camanche Dam, downstream flow has remained relatively constant throughout the year. Based on flow at Camanche Dam, the 50 percent exceedance flow peaks at about 700 cubic feet per second (cfs) during the height of the irrigation season(June) and declines to between 200-300 cfs during the winter. The 10 percent exceedance flow ( high flow) ranges between 1,000 cfs ( September) and 2,700 cfs ( May) throughout the year, with flow about 2,000 cfs from January through May. The 90 percent exceedance flow ( low flow) only ranges between about 100 and 300 cfs throughout the year; the highest flows occur from May through August because of downstream water deliveries to the Woodbridge Irrigation Distric (WID).

IV. History

   Before the East Bay Municipal Utility District built Camanche Dam, there was a small town called Camanche in the early 1960s.

During the Gold Rush, the area in today’s West Calaveras south of the Mokelumne River claimed towns called Poverty Bar, Clay’s Bar, Winters Bar and Limerick, the latter after the many Irish immigrants who settled there. In the mid-1860s, as camps and settlements dwindled, pioneers who hailed from Iowa named their most significant town Camanche, after the Iowa town of the same name–and misspelled the name of the Native American tribe (Comanche) in the same way.

   Though Camanche survived through the decades, there were few residents left by the time the town was emptied so that the East Bay Municipal Utility District could build a dam and reservoir in the early 1960s. The town of Camanche thus disappeared under its waters.
   Camanche Dam will inundate many memories. The $35 million Dam is vital to the East Bay Municipal utility District's $283 million water project. In order to make way for a hug dam and its large reservoir, the town had to go along with the 40 or 50 families who called Camanche home. Construction of the dam began in August of 1962. Within one year, on Dec 18, the valves were closed for the first time, and the huge reservoir begin to fill. 

Camanche dam, a zoned, grave-fill dam with an impervious core, rise 168 feet above streamed. It's 2,640 feet long, and 34.5 feet wide at the crest. Below it, are the East Bay fish facilities, including the largest artificial salmon spawning channel in the world, and the first of its kind in California.

   The huge dam will provide 140 billions gallons of storage on Mokelumne river; its flood control factor requested by the federal government are designed to protect the rich crop lands in the lower river area.

V. Structure

   In the project of buiding Camanche Dam, a mumber of " safey valves" have been incorporated into the structure, including relief wills at the base of the dam and a large spillway. The wells allow underground water to escape the base of Camanche, thereby relieving undue pressure to the struture. Also, the spillway has 182,000 cubic feet per second capacity which is around six times the amount of the biggest flood in the reservoir's history. 

V. Recreation

    The lake has over 7,700 acres (3,100 ha) of water and 56 miles (90 km) of shoreline at full pool. EBMUD has leased the reservoir to the Camanche Regional Park District, which has extensively developed it for recreation.
    There are five separate campground areas which includes North Shore Campground, Boat-in Campground, South-Shore Campground, Group Campgrounds and Equestrian Campground. Each campground has their own activities such as fishing, boating, camping, lodging, and etc are available for visitors. 
     The two campgrounds at Lake Camanche are operated by the California Parks Company. One campground is located on the north side of the lake and the other on the south side. The South Shore Campground includes two RV Parks - Monument RV Park and Miners RV Park. Group and Equestrian campsites are also available.
     Beyond Lake Camanche campgrounds can be found at nearby lakes such as Pardee and New Hogan. For those seeking a mountain and forest setting, Indian Grinding Rock State Park is only a short drive up Highway 88.
     RV parks are found in nearby cities. RiverPoint Landing is located in Stockton right on the San Joaquin River channel. Both Flag City in Lodi and Gold Strike Village in San Andreas have swimming pools.

Peer Review

Hi Molly, This is Nico, I will be your peer reviewer for your Wikipedia talk page.

• I think you're on the right track with your Wikipedia article. You're touching on important points of the structural integrity of the dam as well as the historical importance. There are well thought out facts pointed out and there are great plot points that directs you from its construction to its current purpose.
  
• You can possibly start adding what the Camanche Dam is used for by the public ? (Recreational use, scientific, species conservation)

Nv494 (talk) 16:16, 20 April 2016 (UTC)Nico.v

Rough Draft's feed back

Nico, Thanks a lot of taking your time to review my draft. It was very helpful with all of your suggestions. I will add more information about the recreation information about how they use Camanche Dam with if i could find any information about that. Thanks