Talk:New Melones Dam

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Melones Reservoir

I noticed a reference to the Melones Reservoir built in 1926 here -> South San Joaquin Irrigation District; I'm guessing it's the 'old' to this infrastructure's 'new'. It's probably not a notable enough structure to have its own page, but it may appropriate to place it as a sub-section on this page. I don't know enough about it to add more information than is on the SSJID page. CommOERChip (talk) 02:06, 2 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

By all means, create a subsection and include this page as a source. —Stepheng3 (talk) 02:42, 2 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

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Reviewer: Anarchyte (talk · contribs) 09:03, 2 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'll review this. --Anar chyte 09:04, 2 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Copyvio rating: 75.1% chance of violation of this page.

Not to worry, though. That blog post was on 1 December 2013 and on 6 October 2013, the the article had all the "violated" content.

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Everything is fine here

Specifications

594 ft (181 m) above the streambed.

According to the reference, it's 541.0 ft (164.89 m)

Background and construction

Ref 14 is a dead link with no available archive.

Controversy

For the references in the first paragraph, they all seem to be bunched together at the end, do you think you could change that?

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Very nice article, short, sharp and shiny. I'm going to pass this because the issues I mentioned before are minor and can be fixed in an edit. Passed: --Anar chyte 09:59, 2 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, what a surprise! I was out for the July 4th weekend so didn't expect to see this article reviewed then. I'll go in now and make the fixes you mentioned. Thanks! Shanno n 04:14, 6 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Historic lake levels chart

This is a project I was working on for a while, and now there exists 40 years of water level records of the lake from the DWR. I created an Excel workbook with the intention to graph all this data, revealing drought conditions.

This article discusses how New Melones Lake has a large storage capacity compared to the inflows it receives, and thus it's historically been at a low level and prone to drought. I feel that the article would benefit from a visualization of these water levels, and the internet appears to be devoid of any such copyright free lake levels chart. There are about 14,600 data points between 1985 and 2024. Missing data from 1986, and incorrect data points removed.

Source: NEW MELONES RESERVOIR (NML)

I'd like to get this up to the Wikipedia standards and added to the article. I can also share the excel file but it doesn't look like I can directly upload .xlsx files.

Test Subject 51 (talk) 19:10, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]