I think this is the right place to post this in.
Cindy and I took a drive up to Lake Clementine(12-20-10) to see how much water is going over the dam, and it's a lot
The center 4 gates are deeper than the outside ones, the arch ways are 6' to 6'6" tall and the center 3 are almost under water. We went up Hwy 80 over to Lake Clementine then Hwy 49 to Hwy 193(Georgetown) back to Hwy 49 and came home on Hwy 50.
Hope you enjoy the pic's

http://s949.photobucket.com/albums/ad338/r...%20lake%20pics/

ROD

 

wow nice

 

thats pretty good amount of h2o!
for some reason i dont know where this is at i am a pretty frequent traveler of the old gold rush areas

 

Here you go
"Lake Clementine is used exclusively for public recreational. It resulted from the North Fork Dam completed in 1938 and built by private funds in order to collect sedimentation from upriver hydraulic mining. It was made superfluous a few years later when such operations were discontinued by state edict."
http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=1141
http://findlakes.com/lake_clementine...ia~ca10110.htm

The best time to see the dam is in the spring after a warm spring storm, that way you get all the rain plus the snow that melts. I've seen 3 times that amount of water going over that dam, now that was impressive.

ROD

 

Nice....