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Savage Dam
Savage Dam is a dam across the Otay River in southern San Diego County, California. It is a concrete arch gravity structure high,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Savage, southeast California )〕 and serves to store water from the San Diego Aqueduct's 3rd Pipeline for backup municipal uses in the San Diego metropolitan area. It lies just over east-southeast of Chula Vista and north of the United States-Mexico border. The dam is named in honor of H. N. Savage, who directed its construction.〔Gudde, Erwin G.; Bright, William (2004). ''California Place Names: The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names.'' University of California Press. p. 352. ISBN 0-520-24217-3. Accessed 2011-01-28.〕
The dam was originally completed in 1897 as an earthfill and steel structure called the Otay Dam by the Southern California Mountain Water Company to provide water storage. However, in 1916, heavy rains supposedly brought on by Charles Hatfield, a "rainmaker", hired by the city of San Diego to put an end to a drought, caused the dam to burst. The failure sent a wall of water high downstream, destroying buildings and bridges, and washing thousands of tons of sediment and wreckage into San Diego Bay. Eleven Japanese American farmers were killed.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.btsd.net/ABout/aboutbuddhismandtemple.html )〕 The dam was rebuilt as Savage Dam in 1918, and has functioned properly since.
==See also==
*List of reservoirs and dams in California
*Otay County Open Space Preserve
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