Sugar Pine Dam is an earthfill

embankment dam An embankment dam is a large artificial dam. It is typically created by the placement and compaction of a complex semi-plastic mound of various compositions of soil or rock. It has a semi-pervious waterproof natural covering for its surface and ...

in Placer County, California, approximately north of

Foresthill Foresthill is a census-designated place (CDP) in Placer County, California, United States. It is part of the Sacramento–Arden-Arcade– Roseville Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,483 at the 2010 census, down from 1,791 ...

. It impounds

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, a tributary of the

North Fork American River The North Fork American River is the longest branch of the American River in Northern California. It is long from its source at the crest of the Sierra Nevada, near Lake Tahoe, to its mouth at Folsom Lake northeast of Sacramento. Prior to the co ...

, and serves as the primary municipal water supply for the Foresthill community.

History

The dam was authorized in 1965 as part of the Auburn-Folsom South Unit of the Central Valley Project. Construction began in 1979, and the dam was completed in 1982. The project was transferred to the Foresthill Public Utility District for operation and maintenance in 1984. Although Sugar Pine Dam was funded through the Central Valley Project, it was never integrated into the project operationally, as it was intended to work with the never-completed

Auburn Dam Auburn Dam was a proposed concrete arch dam on the North Fork of the American River east of the town of Auburn, California, in the United States, on the border of Placer and El Dorado Counties. Slated to be completed in the 1970s by the U.S. B ...

. The Sugar Pine Pipeline carries water from

Sugar Pine Reservoir Sugar Pine Reservoir is a reservoir in Placer County, California, located approximately north of Foresthill. The reservoir was flooded in 1982, and today supplies water to the community of Foresthill and hosts a number of recreation facilities. ...

to the Foresthill area. In 2003, the Foresthill Public Utility District purchased Sugar Pine Dam, reservoir, and the pipeline from the

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for $3.1 million. , the district provides water to 1,875 homes and 75 businesses in and around Foresthill.

References

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