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<i>Bear Valley Dam</i>
Photographer: Hervey Friend (photo courtesy of California State Library)
Taken: 1891
Caption: Bear Valley Dam
Additional Description: "Shows single-arch masonry dam constructed of granite ashlar with hearting of rubble, laid in Portland-cement mortar. Outlet from reservoir controlled by iron sluice-gate emptying into culvert. Sluice-gate operated from top of dam by stem passing through vertical pipe. Waste-weir excavated at south end of dam."
Submitted: January 15, 2019.
Database Locator Identification Number: p460731
File Size: 10.182 Megabytes

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