1 天前 · The New York Times first wrote about Lake Berryessa’s mesmerizing drain, ... officials built the Monticello Dam on Putah Creek in the 1950s and has been ... with the Glory Hole is marked off by ...

1 天前 · The New York Times first wrote about Lake Berryessa's mesmerizing drain, ... officials built the Monticello Dam on Putah Creek in the 1950s and has been ... with the Glory Hole is marked off by ...

The dam's morning-glory-type spillway, known as the Glory Hole, [15] is 72 feet (22 m) in diameter at lake level and narrows down to about 28 feet (8.5 m) at the exit. At the lake's peak level, the spillway can drain 48,400 cubic feet per second (1,370 m 3 /s), which occurs when the lake level rises to 15.5 feet (4.7 m) above the level of the ...

1 天前 · Higher than normal water levels have triggered the feature at the Monticello Dam in Napa County, according to local water agency officials. It's the first time this release system, known as the ...

2009年8月13日 · Located at the Monticello Dam at Lake Berryessa in Northern California, this gigantic drain acts as the lake's spillway. Technically known as the Morning Glory Spillway it is locally, somewhat...

2 天之前 · A mesmerizing whirlpool has emerged at California’s Lake Berryessa, a unique feature created by the state’s relentless storms. The Morning Glory Spillway, a funnel-shaped drain installed when the lake was formed in 1957, began gushing this week as it overflowed its banks. This unusual structure, designed to prevent flooding, hasn’t been activated since 2019 and …

2024年3月28日 · According to Kilkus’ 2023 book, “Lake Berryessa Technical Manual,” Monticello Dam’s location in a narrow canyon — known as the Devil’s Gate — did not create enough space to build a typical...

2022年4月11日 · If water levels in the Lake Berryessa reservoir at the top of Monticello Dam rise too high, the excess water begins whirlpooling into a big hole, seemingly carved into the surface of the lake.