Folsom Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the American River of Northern California in the United States, about 25 mi (40 km) northeast of Sacramento. The dam is 340 ft (100 m) high and 1,400 ft (430 m) long, flanked by earthen wing dams. It was completed in 1955, and officially opened the following year.[1]
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The Folsom Dam is featured in Waves of Devastation.
In 10 years after people, the water level at Folsom Dam is dangerously high. Without people, the 1950s era dam has accumulated silt and debris around the floodgate. After 10 years, the water is about 400 feet higher in elevation than Sacramento and a new winter storm is dumping water in faster than it can flow out at the alarming rate. Kevin Knuuti stated that if the Folsom Dam overtopped, water would start eroding the abutments to the dam around the sides of it and could result in a failure. The churning storm water erode the earthen sides of the dam causing it to pull down the rest of the Folsom Dam and burst through the floodgates. With the dam burst, the water then head its way to Sacramento where it destroys the city, plowing into each neighborhood and wiping the airport off with the planes that smash into the surrounding buildings.
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