{"id":2430,"date":"2014-07-10T11:46:18","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T18:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/?p=2430"},"modified":"2014-07-10T11:46:18","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T18:46:18","slug":"new-folsom-auxiliary-dam-to-be-topped-off-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/?p=2430","title":{"rendered":"New Folsom Auxiliary Dam To Be Topped Off Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #555555;\">The last mass of concrete for the Folsom auxiliary dam is set to be placed July 11, completing the structure of the new dam east of Sacramento on the American River, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #555555;\">\u00a0Work will then shift to completing installation of its remaining electrical and mechanical components, including its 12 giant gates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #555555;\">\u00a0Concrete placement for the dam began in May 2012, and crews have worked nearly around the clock, six days a week to pour more than 100,000 cubic yards of concrete for the structure \u2013 enough to lay more than 4,000 foundation slabs for 2,000-square-foot homes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #555555;\">\u00a0While construction of the new dam is scheduled to be complete in 2015, additional work on the spillway\u2019s approach channel, downstream chute and stilling basin, which helps dissipate the energy of water released from the dam before it enters the American River, will continue until the project\u2019s planned October 2017 completion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #555555;\">More at <a title=\"CentralValleyBusinessTimes.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com\/stories\/001\/?ID=26269\" target=\"_blank\">CentralValleyBusinessTimes.com<\/a> &gt;&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last mass of concrete for the Folsom auxiliary dam is set to be placed July 11, completing the structure of the new dam east of Sacramento on the American River, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says. \u00a0Work will then shift to completing installation of its remaining electrical and mechanical components, including its 12 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/?p=2430\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Folsom Auxiliary Dam To Be Topped Off Friday<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-safety","category-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2431,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions\/2431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}