Folsom Dam height raise should increase flood safety in Sacramento and let CA Bureau of Reclamation store 43,000 acre feet more of water in the reservoir for drought years, boating and for fish ...

Work is underway at Folsom Lake to raise the dam and dikes surrounding it by an additional 3.5 feet to lower flood risk to the Sacramento region.The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is overseeing the ...

FOLSOM, Calif. (KTXL) — Federal, state and local officials broke ground on a $440 million project Tuesday to raise the level of the Folsom Dam by 3 and a half feet, increasing its flood ...

Folsom Dam is embarking on an expansion to increase the reservoir’s storage and strengthen flood control. Rep. Doris Matsui, D-Sacramento, Rep. Ami Bera, D-Elk Grove, the Army Corp of Engineers ...

The project's primary goal is to increase the Sacramento region's flood protection, but it will also allow Folsom Lake to store an extra 42,000 acre-feet of water.

Federal Army Corps flood control agency will raise Folsom Dam more than 3 feet to increase reservoir, lake storage and help Sacramento CA have 200-year flood risk management level along American ...

When a new $373 million project by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Folsom Lake is finished, Folsom Dam will be three-and-a-half feet taller — and flood risk in Sacramento will hopefully be ...

Combined with the new spillway completed in 2017, federal dam officials say the flood-prone region is on its way to 300-year or more flood safety, meaning there will only be a one-in-300 chance in ...

The $1 billion Folsom Dam spillway project is the most significant single investment in our region’s flood protection infrastructure in the last quarter-century.

George Booth, executive director of the Floodplain Management Association, is photographed in front of Folsom Dam, Friday, Aug. 16, 2024, in Folsom, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vsquez) ...

Video shows recent water releases at Oroville and Folsom dams as officials open the spillways for flood control purposes. The Oroville dam release of March 10, 2023, came as a series of storms ...

Flooding along the American River near its confluence with the Sacramento River has been a historically devastating event for Sacramento. Since the completion of the Folsom Dam in the late 1950s ...