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Views of the Historic Dam

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Santiago Oaks Regional Park is a 1,269-acre secluded nature reserve in East Orange, California. It is unique for its immersive mountain vistas, meandering streams, mature woodlands, and its historic 1930s dam. The 1932 Santiago Creek Dam features a small, picturesque waterfall, depending on the season.

View of the Historic Dam

Historic Dam

Historic Submerged Dam

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A very easy, shaded trail at Santiago Oaks Regional Park, Orange, California, leads to a historic dam.

In August 1879, local landowners sought to improve the agricultural productivity of their lands. A clay dam was submerged to the bedrock floor of Santiago Creek to force more groundwater to the surface. When that early dam was destroyed by flooding a few years later, it was replaced in 1892 with one made of river rock and cement, which still stands within the present park.

Submerged Historic Dam

Historic Dam History

Historic Dam Sign

Lake Jawai Panorama

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Jawai Bandh was constructed in Rajasthan across the Jawai River, a tributary of the Luni River. Jawai got importance in 1946, when Umaid Singh started building a dam there. Prior to that, it was just an area with some granite hills and a river, uninteresting to tourists or the government. Now, it is a beautiful landscape.

Lake Jowai Panorama
Tree Reflections

Lake Arenal Costa Rica

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Lake Arenal sits at the base of the Arenal Volcano in the northern highlands of Costa Rica. It is the country’s largest landlocked body of water, with a surface that covers nearly 33 square miles (85 square km) and a depth that reaches some 200 feet (60 m).

In 1979, Lake Arenal was enlarged to three times its original size with the construction of a hydroelectric dam. Nowadays, Lake Arenal’s dam is hugely important to the country, as it produces nearly 12% of Costa Rica’s electric energy.

Lake Arenal

Jackson Lake at the Tetons

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Jackson Lake is in Grand Teton National Park in northwestern Wyoming. This natural lake was enlarged by the construction of the Jackson Lake Dam, which was originally built in 1911, enlarged in 1916 and rebuilt by 1989.

Tetons from Jackson Lake
Jackson Lake

Bench View – Catawba River, Hickory

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Winding its way from the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina to central South Carolina, the Catawba-Wateree River Basin contains eleven reservoirs, fourteen dams, and supplies roughly two million people with drinking water.

Here is a bench view from the Catawba river as it flows downward from Lake Hickory Dam in Hickory, North Carolina

Catawba River