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New Melones Dam, a Common card
New Melones Dam is an earth and rock filled embankment dam on the Stanislaus River, about 5 miles west of Jamestown, California, United States, on the border of Calaveras County and Tuolumne County.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 80
- DEF
- 99
- Power
- 179
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 4,400
Power 179 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
New Melones Dam quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the New Melones Dam card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The dam serves mainly for irrigation water supply, and also provides hydropower generation, flood control, and ______ benefits.
Answer
recreation. The dam serves mainly for irrigation water supply, and also provides hydropower generation, flood control, and recreation benefits. From the New Melones Dam article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
The dam was authorized in ____ as a unit of the federal Central Valley Project, a system designed to provide irrigation water to the fertile agricultural region of the Central Valley.
Answer
1940s. The dam was authorized in 1944 as a unit of the federal Central Valley Project, a system designed to provide irrigation water to the fertile agricultural region of the Central Valley. From the New Melones Dam article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle. McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle 91 · Crete 87 · Climate change in India 83 · New Melones Dam 80 ATK in WikiCards.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The water impounded by the 625-foot-tall dam forms New Melones Lake, California's fourth-largest reservoir, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada east of the San Joaquin Valley.
- The dam serves mainly for irrigation water supply, and also provides hydropower generation, flood control, and recreation benefits.
- The dam was authorized in 1944 as a unit of the federal Central Valley Project, a system designed to provide irrigation water to the fertile agricultural region of the Central Valley.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The New Melones Dam article was read about 4,400 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 80 and blocks with 99: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, New Melones Dam (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Bureau of Reclamation photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
