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Loveland Dam
Loveland Dam, 2011
Country	United States
Location	San Diego County, California
Coordinates	32°46′54″N 116°47′39″W / 32.78167°N 116.79417°W / 32.78167; -116.79417
Status	In use
Opening date	1945; 79 years ago (1945)
Owner(s)	Sweetwater Authority
Dam and spillways
Type of dam	Concrete thin arch
Impounds	Sweetwater River
Height	203 ft (62 m)
Length	765 ft (233 m)
Spillways	1
Spillway type	Uncontrolled over-the-crest
Spillway capacity	62,000 cu ft/s (1,800 m³/s)
Reservoir
Creates	Loveland Reservoir
Total capacity	25,387 acre⋅ft (31,314,000 m³)
Catchment area	98 sq mi (250 km²)
Surface area	454 acres (184 ha)

Loveland Dam (also called Sweetwater Falls Dam) is a dam across the Sweetwater River in San Diego County, California. The dam forms the long, narrow Loveland Reservoir, which stores 25,387 acre-feet (31,314,000 m³) of water.^[1] It is operated primarily for flood control and municipal water storage in conjunction with downstream Sweetwater Dam. The reservoir is also open to the public for fishing.^[2]

The dam stands 203 feet (62 m) high and spans 765 feet (233 m) across the narrow gorge of the Sweetwater River, 2.4 miles (3.9 km) south of Alpine. It is built entirely of concrete and has a thin arch design. Loveland Dam is the younger of the two dams on the Sweetwater River; the other, Sweetwater Dam, was built in 1888, while Loveland was constructed in 1945.^[3]

The dam is named after Chester H. Loveland, president of the California Water and Telephone Corporation, the firm that built it.^[4] The Loveland Reservoir is considered a better water storage facility than Sweetwater because of its much smaller surface area (454 acres compared to 960) and comparable capacity, thus it is less vulnerable to evaporation.^[5]

References

^ "Sweetwater Authority Reservoir Levels". Sweetwater Authority. Archived from the original on 2011-01-10. Retrieved 2011-01-20.
^ "Lake Loveland, southeast California". FindLakes. Retrieved 2011-01-20.
^ "Loveland Reservoir". Sweetwater Authority. Archived from the original on 2011-01-10. Retrieved 2011-01-20.
^ Fetzer, Leland (2005). San Diego County Place Names A to Z. San Diego: Sunbelt Publications. p. 85.
^ Reynolds, Richard A. (2008-08-02). "Sweetwater Dam: Then and Now" (PDF). (original not found). Retrieved 2011-01-20.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

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