March 2006 Click image to enlarge

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The reservoir is 250 feet deep. Two dams help contain the water. A computerized monitoring system is used to detect and measure water pressure, settlement, shifting and leakage. At the Diamond Valley visitor center, we saw bones of Wolly Mammoth that had been uncovered while they were digging down to bedrock. Here is a pipe and a tire used in the project. During operations, 110 million cubic yards of material was moved. Factoid: this is enough material to build a wall around the equator 7.5 feet high and 3 feet wide.
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