Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Eastman Lake - Madera County, California


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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