Don Pedro Dam
The Don Pedro Dam, since 1971 also known as the Old Don Pedro Dam, was a dam across the Tuolumne River in Tuolumne County, California. The structure still exists and is flooded underneath Don Pedro Reservoir, which is formed by the New Don Pedro Dam. Construction. It was a solid concrete gravity dam that was high, wide, thick at the crest, and thick at the base. It was completed in 1923 where the Tuolumne River had carved a narrow gorge with walls of solid rock about a mile (2 km) below Don Pedro Bar. The reservoir created  by this dam contained of water when full, 14.3% of today's capacity. A 15 megawatt power plant was part of the dam's original design, and two more 7500 kilowatt generators were added in 1926 for 30 megawatts total, just 15% of today's capacity. The old dam still exists about upstream from the new 1971 dam, and since the old dam topped out at just above sea level it is now under some of water when the new reservoir is full.