For the past two weeks, the lower chambers of the Terminus Dam at Lake Kaweah in Tulare County, California, have been flooded, after a two-inch water line ruptured.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Area Manager, Calvin Foster said that after a week of careful planning and waiting for water levels to equalize, dive crews were finally able to fix the leaks on Sunday. “They were successful on installing a valve on the two-inch line coming from the float well,” Foster said. “From there they went to the lake side, and dove on the lake and were able to get a plate and seal that inflow from the exterior of the tower coming in.”
The district is one of many that deliver water from the lake to Valley farmers who depend on the flow to irrigate their crops, especially in June and July.
Officials with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers say they’re still working to fix a small leak at the bottom of the tower. There’s no timeline for a full fix at the tower, and no estimate of how much it will cost.