Excerpt page on New Melones from "Disasters in Water Development" (PDF)

This draft report that this page comes from represents five years of work by the National Water Commission studying all the nation’s water problems and needs. Section on New Melones Dam is in the report entitled: Disasters in Water Development: Some of the Most Economically Wasteful and Environmentally Destructive Projects of the Corps of Engineers, the Bureau of Reclamation, and the Tennessee Valley Authority. It is online here .