Nimbus Dam

The Nimbus Dam is a base load hydroelectric dam on the American River near Folsom, California. Approximately 8,700 acre feet (10,700 dam³) of water is retained by the dam. It is responsible for the impoundment of water from the American River to create the Lake Natoma reservoir.

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Map of Nimbus Dam, Fair Oaks, CA 95628, USA

As part of the Central Valley Project (CVP), a federal water project that provides irrigation and municipal water to much of California's Central Valley, it was authorized in 1949 as a regulating reservoir for Folsom Dam, and a diversion pool for the Folsom South Canal. Construction began in 1952, and it opened in 1955.