Title: Monticello Dam - Wikipedia
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Monticello Dam
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Content: However, locals strongly favored that Solano be financed and operated separately from the CVP. A Senate hearing in 1953 confirmed that Solano would be constructed as an independent project. Land purchases in the future reservoir area were made in early 1953; however, landowners were allowed to stay throughout the construction period until their property was actually flooded by rising lake levels. The inhabitants of Berryessa Valley vehemently opposed the project, as did the city of Winters (one of the would-be beneficiaries of the project) because of close social ties to the town of Monticello. Opponents of the big dam proposed that a series of smaller reservoirs be constructed to supply the water, but this was deemed uneconomical. Most of Monticello's residents moved out by summer 1956, as rising waters approached the town. After the area was vacated, crews deforested the valley and demolished the existing buildings and infrastructure. About 300 graves had to be relocated to higher ground. Photographers Dorothea Lange and Pirkle Jones documented the town and its people before the town was flooded by the dam;