{"id":124,"date":"2017-09-18T17:58:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T00:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eoashazards\/?page_id=124"},"modified":"2020-11-15T21:21:47","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T04:21:47","slug":"cleveland-dam","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eoashazards\/cleveland-dam\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland Dam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Location:<\/b> Cleveland Dam <b>elevn:<\/b> 142m. <b>Lat.<\/b> 49.36031 <b>Long.<\/b> -123.111<\/p>\n<p><b>Direct Google URL:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.ca\/maps\/place\/Capilano+Watershed,+West+Vancouver,+BC+V7S+1L2\/@49.3245031,-123.1083312,3578a,35y,352.17h,50.5t\/data=%213m1%211e3%214m13%211m7%213m6%211s0x0:0x0%212zNDnCsDIxJzM3LjEiTiAxMjPCsDA2JzM5LjgiVw%213b1%218m2%213d49.360314%214d-123.111046%213m4%211s0x54866f98322e9929:0x6f0524af28f8e914%218m2%213d49.3678532%214d-123.1032765%215m1%211e4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> This link takes you to a prepared viewpoint.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Hazard type:<\/b> earthquake considerations<\/p>\n<p><b>Short Description:<\/b> Infrastructure that may be vulnerable to seismic or landslide activity.<\/p>\n<p><b>Long Description:<\/b> Capilano Lake is an artificial lake in North Vancouver. In the early 1950\u2019s, the Cleveland Dam was constructed on the Capilano River. The lake is 5.6km in length and 80m deep, holding roughly 75 million cubic metres of water. Is the dam holding this large lake capable of withstanding the mega quake that will inevitably occur in the Pacific North West?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.insidevancouver.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/capilano.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nArtificial Capilano Lake, a Vancouver reservoir, contained by the Cleveland Dam.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.straight.com\/news\/448266\/jerome-irwin-earthquake-awareness-wake-call-long-overdue-north-shore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">media1<\/a>:<\/b> Earthquake awareness wake-up call long overdue for the North Shore, including concerns about dams holding back huge volumes of water as Vancouver&#8217;s water supply.<\/p>\n<p>Some content on this page has been copied, adapted or referenced from Dep\u2019t Geog. UBC\u2019s virtual field trip blog, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fieldtrips\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fieldtrips\/.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-217 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eoashazards\/files\/2018\/04\/by-sa-300x105.png\" alt=\"Attribution, share-alike\" width=\"94\" height=\"33\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eoashazards\/files\/2018\/04\/by-sa-300x105.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eoashazards\/files\/2018\/04\/by-sa.png 403w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 94px) 100vw, 94px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Location: Cleveland Dam elevn: 142m. Lat. 49.36031 Long. -123.111 Direct Google URL: This link takes you to a prepared viewpoint. Hazard type: earthquake considerations Short Description: Infrastructure that may be vulnerable to seismic or landslide activity. Long Description: Capilano Lake is an artificial lake in North Vancouver. In the early 1950\u2019s, the Cleveland Dam was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22035,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-124","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eoashazards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eoashazards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eoashazards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eoashazards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22035"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eoashazards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eoashazards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eoashazards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/124\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eoashazards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}