An $802 million project to bolster Folsom Dam is going full bore — and hiring hundreds of local workers and dozens of vendors in the process.

Construction of the control structure — the third in four phases of the Folsom Dam Auxiliary Spillway Project — is nearly complete, says the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the agency spearheading the project.

The project has brought heavy construction equipment and occasional blasting to the area of Folsom Lake Crossing since 2007. It is meant to help the dam control water flow more efficiently if there is a high-water event — and help Sacramento meet its required level of 200-year flood protection.

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