Terminus Dam has hit its maximum (what experts call ... The top of the dam has an elevation of 750 ft and the spillway crest is 715 ft. The Sequoia Parks Conservancy the same day shared photos ...

At this point, water can more freely escape the reservoir through the spillway, preserving the dam's integrity. The Terminus Dam fusegates are designed to individually tip over and allow a flow ...

The Army Corps of Engineers, the agency that oversees Lake Kaweah and Kaweah Terminus Dam, began releasing water ... were placed in the Lake Kaweah spillway. It’s common to release water two ...

In the late 1990s, Terminus Dam’s spillway was raised 22 feet, and guests were able to tour the cavernous engineering feat that increased Kaweah Lake’s capacity to more than 180,000 acre-feet.

Tulare County residents are paying close attention to dams in Porterville and Visalia, and their spillways, as rain saturates the state. After some scatter showers Wednesday, dry weather will ...