Lithotripsy is the use of high-energy shock waves to fragment and disintegrate kidney stones. The shock wave, created by using a high-voltage spark or an electromagnetic impulse outside of the body, is focused on the stone. The shock wave shatters the stone, allowing the fragments to pass through the urinary system.
The reservoir would partially inundate both Millerton and Kerckhoff reservoirs. Temperance Flat Dam is a proposed dam project on the San Joaquin River west of Auberry, California. The dam's main purpose would be to supplement storage capacity in the upper San Joaquin River basin.
The Bonneville Salt Flats is part of the Great Salt Lake desert, shown here. Racing on the Salt Flats, 1940s, with Ab Jenkins' Mormon Meteor III. In 1845, John C. Fremont and his expedition crossed through the very heart of the salt flats in an effort to find a shorter overland route to the Pacific.