Puddingstone Dam
Dam in Los Angeles County, California
34°05′25″N 117°48′33″W / 34.09028°N 117.80917°W / 34.09028; -117.80917Puddingstone Dam is a 147 ft (45 m) high earth and rockfill dam in the San Gabriel Valley, within San Dimas in eastern Los Angeles County, California.
The dam was built in 1928 by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works, which continues to operate it.
Geography
Puddingstone Dam serves mainly for flood control. It impounds Walnut Creek, a tributary of the San Gabriel River, to form Puddingstone Reservoir, which can hold more than 20,000 acre⋅ft (25,000,000 m3) of water.[1] The reservoir stores floodwater from both the Walnut Creek Wash, and also the San Dimas Wash, to which it is connected by a short artificial channel below San Dimas Dam.
See also
- List of dams and reservoirs in California
- San Gabriel River topics
- San Gabriel Valley topics
References
- ^ "Puddingstone". National Performance of Dams Program. Stanford University. Archived from the original on 2012-04-15. Retrieved 2011-11-24.
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Dams in Los Angeles County, California
- Castaic
- Elderberry Forebay
- Pyramid
- Big Dalton
- Big Tujunga
- Cogswell
- Devil's Gate
- Eaton Wash
- Live Oak
- Morris
- Pacoima
- Puddingstone
- San Dimas
- San Gabriel
- Santa Anita
- Sawpit (disused)
- Sierra Madre
- Thompson Creek
- Baldwin Hills (failed)
- Bouquet
- Chatsworth (unsafe: emptied)
- Dry Canyon (unsafe: emptied)
- Encino
- Fairmont
- Los Angeles
- Mulholland
- Silver Lake
- St. Francis (failed)
- Stone Canyon
- Van Norman (aka San Fernando) (failed)
- Brown Mountain Dam (disused)
- Las Virgenes
- Little Rock
- Rindge (disused)