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	Don Pedro Dam
		Don Pedro Dam is located on the Tuolumne River, 40 miles east of Modesto, California.
		New Don Pedro Dam was completed in May of 1971, and the new powerhouse could generate up to 165 megawatts of electricity by utilizing three "Francis" type hydroelectric turbine generators.
		Each year the Don Pedro dam releases water into Tuolumne River and roughly after 2 miles, at the La Grange Dam approximately 885,000 acre-feet of water is diverted to the MID and TID main canals.
	cee.engr.ucdavis.edu /faculty/lund/dams/Don%20Pedro/donpedro.htm (1541 words)

	Welcome to Don Pedro Lake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The present earth and rock fill dam was built by the City of San Francisco, the Turlock Irrigation District, and the Modesto Irrigation District.
		The recreation facilities are maintained and operated by the Don Pedro Recreation Agency, an entity of the reservoir owners and governed by the Don Pedro Board of Control.
		Don Pedro's ecosystem attracts much of the wildlife that is typical of the Sierra foothills.
	www.donpedrolake.com /general_info.html (415 words)

	Don Pedro Reservoir Fishing Map, The Fish Sniffer Online
		Lake Don Pedro, nourished by the cold, clear waters of the Tuolumne River, is a lake of surprising contrasts.
		Don Pedro features one of the most diverse arrays of salmonids, including rainbow, brown and brook trout and king and kokanee salmon, found in any California lake.
		You have a chance of catching a monster bass at Don Pedro, since the reservoir was planted with Florida-strain largemouth in 1980.
	www.fishsniffer.com /maps/donpedro.html (1220 words)

	Both Kings And Kokanee Successfully Spawn At Lake Don Pedro, by Dan Bacher
		The DFG stocked Don Pedro with 100,000 king salmon in 2004 and will stock another 100,000 fish in the lake this year, according to Rod Browning, chairman of the California Inland Fisheries Foundation, Inc. (CIFFI).
		Don Pedro is a very popular lake for bass tournaments, with over 80 tournaments held there each year.
		The Lake Don Pedro Marina facilities include houseboat, ski boat and wave runner rentals, a boat launch ramp, restrooms with showers, a swimming lagoon, an amphitheater, softball & volleyball facilities, group picnic areas, bank fishing and a Trading Post for ice, snacks, groceries and propane.
	www.fishsniffer.com /dbacher/050516donpedro.html (1546 words)

	Don Pedro Reservoir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		estled in the Sierra-Nevada foothills east of Modesto, California, Don Pedro Lake is the sixth-largest body of water in California.
		When full, the reservoir is 26-miles-long, has a capacity of more than two million acre-feet and 160 miles of shoreline.
		The reservoir and dam, dedicated in 1971 and owned by the Turlock and Modesto irrigation districts, were built with multiple benefits in mind: water storage, power generation, flood control and recreation.
	www.tid.org /donpedro/default.htm (71 words)

	New Don Pedro Dam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Don_Pedro_Dam (125 words)

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		Don Pedro Lake is centrally located in California's Sierra Nevada Foothills and is within easy access for all of Central California and the Bay Area.
		Lake Don Pedro Marina at Fleming Meadows is a full service marina and they rent party barges, fishing boats and patio boats, as well as houseboats, (see their ad on opposite page).
		Governed by the Don Pedro Board of Control, it is the Recreation Agency's objective to provide a quality family camping and water sports oriented environment.
	www.sierraescape.com /headers/OUTDOOR.html (8777 words)

	The Moore Family's Web site: Dam stuff
		World's third largest earth-filled dam was completed in 1967 at a cost of $1.473B and produces 1000 megawatts of electric power from ten 100 megawatt electric power generator sets.
		Nestled in the Sierra-Nevada foothills east of Modesto, California, Don Pedro Lake is the sixth-largest body of water in California.
		The Guri Dam is Venezuela's largest dam, and the world's second largest in terms of installed capacity (10.000 MW), only surpassed by the Itaipú dam in Brazil/Paraguay (12.600 MW).
	hometown.aol.com /moorerandy/dam/dam.htm (521 words)

	Tuolumne River. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
		In Yosemite Park are rivers; Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne; Hetch Hetchy Valley, and Reservoir (formed by O’Shaughessy Dam).
		W of Yosemite Park, Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct diverts from river and parallels it to S; crosses river at Don Pedro Reservoir, then roughly parallels river to N, lower course paralleled to N by Modesto Main Canal (irrigation).
		In SW Tuolumne co. is Don Pedro Dam (284 ft/87 m high, 1,040 ft/317 m long; completed 1923 for irrigation and power), impounding Don Pedro Reservoir (c.10 mi/16 km long).
	www.bartleby.com /69/47/T07347.html (175 words)

	LESSONS FROM HETCH HETCHY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		A highlight for visitors to the Hetch Hetchy dam and aqueduct while it was being constructed was a scary 1900 feet ride on a cable tramway from the railroad to a "temporary" early intake powerhouse at the base of an incline and twelve miles downstream from the Hetch Hetchy Valley dam.
		A 651,800,000,000 gallon or 2,000,000 acre feet Don Pedro Reservoir that replaced the old 94,500,000,000 gallon or 290,000 acre feet Don Pedro Reservoir in 1971 necessitated the flooding of the town of Jacksonville in Tuolumne County.
		As the Don Pedro Dam is managed by the Modesto and Turlock Irrigation Districts, it is not part of the Hetch Hetchy system, though the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, in consideration of the $45,000,000 it paid toward the Dam's $100,000,000 construction, retains rights to store 570,000 acre feet of water.
	members.cox.net /ramero/hetchy.htm (5510 words)

	A School District for Don Pedro, CA. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		With growth of the Don Pedro area, after the new dam was built, that district established a small elementary school at the present high school site.
		The lack of facilities at Don Pedro Elementary School was also due to Mariposa’s failure to invest monies provided for the Don Pedro Elementary School in the Don Pedro area.
		Creation of a separate Don Pedro Unified School District may be possible along the line of the ambulance district.
	donpedroschooldistrict.blogspot.com (1266 words)

	Ted Hromadka,Ph.D.,Ph.D.,Ph.D.,PH,PE,LG, Expert Witness Experience
		Dam outflow, sediment transport, hydrology, hydraulics, erosion, scour.
		Don Pedro Dam operations, flow release, cloud seeding, hydrology, two-dimensional hydraulics, levee analysis, groundwater modeling.
		Flood inundation, erosion of slopes adjacent to dams, erosion of dike, scour analysis, analysis of dam operation.
	www.hromadka.net /expertwitness.html (1114 words)

	Don Pedro Dam - Modesto - Modesto, CA
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		Completed in 1923 as a joint venture of the Modesto and Turiock irrigation Districts.
		The beautiful lake created by the dam not only provides these communities with irrigation water, but an excellent recreational area.
	www.cardcow.com /catalog/product_21528_Don_Pedro_Dam.html (101 words)

	San Joaquin River Group - Administration
		The New Don Pedro Project (NDPP) is located at the western edge of Tuolumne County on the Tuolumne River.
		The NDPP consists of the New Don Pedro Dam, New Don Pedro Reservoir, and the New Don Pedro Powerhouse (FERC 1996).
		The net results for the New Don Pedro Powerhouse for the years affected are presented in Table 11-3 assuming an April supplemental VAMP release, and Table 11-4 assuming a May supplemental VAMP release.
	www.sjrg.org /EIR/supplemental/sup_chpt11.htm (2139 words)

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		So successful were the districts that the Don Pedro Dam (the world's largest at the time) was built solely with the tax revenue from increased land values.
		Don Villarejo quotes the reaction of Tehama County olive grower, Les Melvill, "In the olive industry huge acreages were planted.
		Don Villarejo also itemizes the violations of 1982 law: "This study found that large landholders have been representing themselves as several small units even though their land was being managed as one operation.
	www.henrygeorge.org /caldes.htm (10059 words)

	TRPT - About Us (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Five major dams, powerhouses, and reservoirs on the river provide the region with 2.5 billion kilowatts of electricity and storage for 2.6 million acre-feet of water for drinking and irrigation.
		Founding board member Bob Hackamack intervened in the relicensing of the New Don Pedro Dam, ultimately helping to reshape the Settlement Agreement to include a strategy to increase the wild spawning salmon population and increased allocation of water downstream of the dam.
		TRPT intervenes in the FERC re-licensing of New Don Pedro dam
	www.tuolumne.org /aboutus.html (1677 words)

	Modbee.com \| The Modesto Bee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The bonds to build New Don Pedro were issued and sold in August 1967.
		When the New Don Pedro bond issue was put to a vote, 97 percent in Modesto said yes.
		New Don Pedro Dam — and its reservoir of 2million acre-feet of water — belongs to all of those who live in the Turlock and Modesto irrigation districts.
	www.modbee.com /opinion/story/10758947p-11537265c.html (512 words)

	Restoring Hetch Hetchy By David Brower (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Although Secretary Hodel's proposal to tear down the O'Shaughnessy Dam was not the first suggestion that this be done, it came from higher authority than any other.
		Don Pedro Dam could have been built in the first place, and a major scenic resource could have been retained, lakeless and beautiful.
		In summary, Auburn Dam and the Peripheral Canal are not needed to substitute for Hetch Hetchy Valley's storage.
	www.sierraclub.org /chapters/ca/hetchhetchy/restoring_hetchy_by_brower.html (2325 words)

	WakeWorld Discussion Board: 49er Cove, Don Pedro BEWARE!
		I've been going to Pedro my whole life and have seen it in all states of water level, so maybe I just know where the rocks and shallow spots are, but I'd love to have the heads up.
		Even most of the ones that were natural have had a small extension dam built up on the output so that they can store water as a reservoir.
		At least Lake Don Pedro has clear enough water that you have a chance to see a hazard just below the water surface.
	www.wakeworld.com /MB/Discus/messages/65919/169082.html?1083899466 (799 words)

	Giddy: Don Pedro Hydroelectric case study
		The Don Pedro Hydroelectric Plant, which began operation in November 1996, is located on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica in the town of San Miguel de Sarapiqui.
		Because there is no large dam required for this type of facility, and thus no flooding of the river valley, the Don Pedro facility has minimal impact on the environment.
		Sponsors/Lead Manager: PH Don Pedro SA, a Costa Rican special purpose corporation; the US firm Energia Global Inc. (EGI) is the lead equity investor in PH Don Pedro along with Energy Investors Funds and Energia Global de Costa Rica.
	pages.stern.nyu.edu /%7Eigiddy/cases/donpedro.htm (538 words)

	14/9/2005 -- Restore Hetch Hetchy Presents Billion Dollar Plan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Additional measures such as water and energy conservation, raising Don Pedro Dam, and groundwater storage could easily and economically replace the decreased water and energy, the group says.
		The group says removal of the dam would not interfere with the extensive repairs San Francisco is making to the rest of its water supply system, and would not slow down the pace of those repairs.
		Major dams on the Elwha River in Washington state, Maine's Kennebeck River, Virginia's Rappahonock River and many other rivers have either been removed, or are about to be removed.
	www.forests.org /articles/reader.asp?linkid=46175 (826 words)

	lake don pedro marina - Cuba Marinas cubamarinas.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Lake Don Pedro Houseboat Rental - California Moccasin Point Marina offers house boat rentals and camping facilities in the Lake Don Pedro area for your CA Lake Vacation.
		Lacey's Narrows Marina Lake Amistad Resort & Marina Lake Don Pedro Marina Lake Lanier Islands Boat Rentals Lake McClure Marinas Lake of the Ozarks Marina Lake of the Woods Houseboats Lake Oroville...
		The Lake Don Pedro Marina, at Fleming Meadows, is home to our Four Winns boat and port-of-call for supplies when needed.
	www.cubamarinas.com /lake-don-pedro-marina (394 words)

	Lake Don Pedro Fishing Report
		The surface temp on Don Pedro has dropped a few degrees and has really put the ‘bows on the bite.
		Woods Creek arm and the river canyon are giving up some nice fish on silver E-chip lures and rolled shad and anchovies at 50 feet.
		The trout fishing remains solid at Don Pedro with pressure on the lake very light.
	www.valleyoutdoorsmen.com /fishing/fishingreports/donpedroreport.htm (155 words)

	Reservoirs and dams in the United States Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Reservoirs and dams in the United States is a link page for any reservoir or dam in the United States.
		See also: List of reservoirs and dams, List of waterways, Rivers in the United States, Canals in the United States
		Hoover Dam, Lake Mead, largest man-made reservoir in the United States
	www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/r/re/reservoirs_and_dams_in_the_united_states.html (113 words)

	Relicensing Review - Project Summary - New Don Pedro
		Don Pedro is a part earth and rock, part concrete dam built in the early 1920s that supplies both water and power.
		Old Don Pedro generated 60 MW by 1926.
		Further upgrades -- New Don Pedro - made the dam higher and brought capacity up to 203 MW by 1989.
	www.newsdata.com /rr/project_new_don_pedro.html (230 words)

	Encyclopedia: Reservoirs and dams in California (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Other descriptions of Reservoirs and dams in California
		The "height" listed is the vertical distance from the crest of the dam to the original stream bed at the downstream toe of the dam.
		Oroville Dam is the tallest dam in the United States.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Reservoirs-and-dams-in-California (146 words)

	Don Pedro Camping
		Â Â T here are two marinas at Don Pedro Lake, Moccasin Point Marina and Lake Don Pedro Marina, which are both owned by Forever Resorts.Â To learn more about Forever Resorts you may contact them by phone at 1-800-255-5561 or view their website at www.foreverResorts.Com.
		on theÂ north side of the Don Pedro dam.
		The Lake Don Pedro Marina is near the Fleming Meadows Campground.Â To view a map of Fleming Meadows in relation to the marina, click here.Â This marina contains such facilities as:
	www.donpedrolake.com /Marina_Home.aspx (145 words)

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