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Rock Creek Dam, East end of Rock Creek Road, Auburn, Placer County, CA

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Rock Creek Dam, East end of Rock Creek Road, Auburn, Placer County, CA

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Summary

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

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Date

1969 - 1980
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Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Pacific Gas & 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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Location

Auburn (Calif.)38.94693, -121.09078
Google Map of 38.946934, -121.0907754
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Source

Library of Congress
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