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DETAIL, LOWERED ARCHES BACKING THE SPILLWAY, LOOKING SOUTHWEST FROM THE NORTH EMBANKMENT. - Rock Creek Dam, East end of Rock Creek Road, Auburn, Placer County, CA
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Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Monroe, R A
Eastwood, John
PAR Environmental Services, Incorporated, contractor
De Vries, David G, photographer
Baker, Cindy L, historian
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DETAIL, LOWERED ARCHES BACKING THE SPILLWAY, LOOKING SOUTHWEST FROM THE NORTH EMBANKMENT. - Rock Creek Dam, East end of Rock Creek Road, Auburn, Placer County, CA
Depicted place California; Placer County; Auburn
Date Documentation compiled after 1968
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER CAL,31-AUB.V,1-5
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  • Significance: The Rock Creek Dam is the only known example of a double-hinged multiple arch dam in California and the only unaltered, unfixed hinge dam in the western United States.
  • Survey number: HAER CA-238
  • Building/structure dates: 1916 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1966 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ca2608.photos.382896p
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Object location38° 53′ 48.01″ N, 121° 04′ 32.99″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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