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Author: Larry R. Matthews Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1439644543 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 128
Book Description
In the early 1960s, thousands of construction workers and their families came to Oroville, in Northern California, to help build the largest earth-fill dam in the world. Located nine miles northeast of town, the Oroville Dam would be the cornerstone of the California State Water Project, which would provide flood control, electric power, recreation, and water to California residents. The project was so massive that it would reinvent the look of much of the area; require the building of roads, bridges, and railroads; inundate much of the area's history under hundreds of feet of water; and greatly effect the lives of the residents of Oroville. The successful completion of the project came at a price--34 construction workers died.
Author: Larry R. Matthews Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1439644543 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 128
Book Description
In the early 1960s, thousands of construction workers and their families came to Oroville, in Northern California, to help build the largest earth-fill dam in the world. Located nine miles northeast of town, the Oroville Dam would be the cornerstone of the California State Water Project, which would provide flood control, electric power, recreation, and water to California residents. The project was so massive that it would reinvent the look of much of the area; require the building of roads, bridges, and railroads; inundate much of the area's history under hundreds of feet of water; and greatly effect the lives of the residents of Oroville. The successful completion of the project came at a price--34 construction workers died.
Author: Larry R. Matthews Publisher: Arcadia Library Editions ISBN: 9781531675547 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 130
Book Description
In the early 1960s, thousands of construction workers and their families came to Oroville, in Northern California, to help build the largest earth-fill dam in the world. Located nine miles northeast of town, the Oroville Dam would be the cornerstone of the California State Water Project, which would provide flood control, electric power, recreation, and water to California residents. The project was so massive that it would reinvent the look of much of the area; require the building of roads, bridges, and railroads; inundate much of the area's history under hundreds of feet of water; and greatly effect the lives of the residents of Oroville. The successful completion of the project came at a price--34 construction workers died.
Author: Larry R. Matthews Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1439658498 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 128
Book Description
In 1968, Lake Oroville flooded the West Branch, North Fork, Middle Fork, and South Fork canyons of the Feather River. Also inundated were the communities of Las Plumas, the Big Bend Power House, Bidwell Bar, and Enterprise. In 1994, Feather Falls Village, located above the lake, also ceased to exist due to a totally different situation. But all of these communities had one thing in common: there were people who had resided in them for decades and who still have an emotional connection to them. This book attempts to preserve some of the history of those areas and also tries to show some of what it was like to live in those now almost forgotten communities.
Author: California Dept of Water Resources Publisher: Palala Press ISBN: 9781378253663 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 126
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Author: Larry R. Matthews
Author: Larry R. Matthews
Author: Larry R. Matthews
Author: Larry R. Matthews
Author: Alan Jones
Author: Oroville Area Chamber of Commerce, Oroville, Calif
Author: California. Department of Water Resources
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Author: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Author: California. Department of Water Resources
Author: California Dept of Water Resources