Visited on 5/21/2018,
on my way back home to Sacramento from a business trip to give Drinking Water
examinations in the Central Valley of California, I took the back roads over to
Eastman Lake. This is a 1,780 acre artificial
lake formed by the construction of Buchanan Dam across the Chowchilla River in
the foothills of Madera County, California. A small percentage of the northwest
area of the reservoir is in Mariposa County.
This lake is at 453
feet above sea level and the Buchanan Dam was a 1975 flood control and
irrigation project of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. The earthen
dam is 218 feet high with a length of
1,746 feet at the crest.
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