Bduck
12-31-2009, 10:46 AM
As some of you know, I come from Sacramento. I left there in Nov 97' due to military installation(McClellan AFB) closures. Over the yrs that I lived there, there was a proposed issue of building a dam in the foothills near Auburn east of Sacramento. This issue had died long before I moved on. I have seen some of the prep work that was done in preperation of this project going through back as far as the early 80's. There was a bridge built across one of the canyons that was going to be part of the new lake. The bridge also connected two towns, Forest Hill & Auburn. The proposed dam that was to be built died after it was discovered that it would be built near an earth quake fault line. Northern Cal. supplies an abundant of water to southern Cal by way of a aqua duct system that the state poored million$ into. Now they have been needing more water up north. If this dam were built, northern Cal would have once again a abundant water supply, an excellent fishery, possible a good blue ribbon Kokanee reservoir with seeing how deep this lake was going to be. Its amazing how I read posts on this forum of how one state(Colorado) needs water and that would be tapping the Flaming Gorge, in 2 other states, for it, and another state(Calif.) can't build dams because of earth quakes. We are witnessing alot of bridge repair work all across our great land for earth quake proofing. Some buildings as well. But with knowledge that our engineers hold and the "modern marvels" that we possess here, politicians are always going to stand in the way. I guess its true Calif is a big disaster waiting to happen and the rest of us will have beach front property. I know Calif is broke right now but it will eventually recover. Is there a possibility in the future of the Auburn Dam being revived? BTW, that bridge is still there.