1) Flows on the Stanislaus River in the floods of 1861-62 may have reached approximately 280,000 cubic feet per second on January 9, 1862 or January 20 or both, and 2) In building New Melones Dam ...
Yet the state has built almost no major northern or central mountain reservoirs since the New Melones Dam of 1979. That added nearly 3 million acre-feet to the state’s storage reserves – a ...