Sierra Madre Canyon Dam (A photo per month)

[Mark Sedenquist]

I thought--mostly for my own interest perhaps--that I would start this thread capturing and displaying the progress of digging out the debris field piled against the Sierra Madre Canyon Dam. I will post a photo on the last day of each month (or as near to that as I can--given travel commitments and etc.)


(February 14th)
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Lots of progress so far today

February 28th at 9:55 am PST
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Quite an amazing sum of dirt and rock has been removed thus far.

March 31st at 12:30 pm PDT
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April 30th at about 10:50 am PDT
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Hole is getting deeper

May 30th at 3:00 pm
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Water is still flowing down the channel, and most of the tractors are out of sight today.
The thing to notice from last month (May 30th) is that sides are cleaner, they have removed alot of rock on both sides. It looks to me that the drop over the last month is about five feet or so.
Well-- on to July 30th in a a month!

June 30th at 3:45 pm
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**** Presumably, this is will be near the eventual depth once again:

This was taken on January 29, 2025 and before the rains came it was about 50 feet deeper!
Photo courtesy of PasadenaNow.com and Jules Hotz for CalMatters