Building History

It not clear if this lodge business was actually built. It was sited on Lake Cachuma, a reservoir proposed in the late 1940s by the Santa Barbara County Water Agency in association with the Federal Bureau of Reclamation. Planning for this complex and difficult water project, designed to capture winter and spring rainfall into the Santa Ynez River, began in 1947, with construction commencing in 1950. The comprehensive project, included two main parts, the 279-foot-tall earthen Cachuma Dam (later renamed the "Bradbury Dam" in 1971) finished in 1953 and the semi-circular, 6.4-mile Tecolote Tunnel completed after significant hardship in 1956. A system of three regulating dams and reservoirs--Lauro Dam and Reservoir, Ortega Dam and Reservoir and Glen Anne Dam and Reservoir--as well as water piping systems for customers in Carpineteria, Goleta and Summerland County, were also finished by 1956.

PCAD id: 24918