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In 1923, EBMUD was founded due to the rapid population growth and severe drought in the area. The district constructed Pardee Dam (finished in 1929) on the Mokelumne River in the Sierra Nevada, and a large steel pipe Mokelumne Aqueduct to transport the water from Pardee Reservoir across the Central Valley to the San Pablo Reservoir located in the hills of the East Bay region.
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The East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) — a water supply and wastewater treatment utility district in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, California. It serves Alameda County and Contra Costa County , with headquarters in Oakland .
Location: San Leandro, California: Coordinates: 1]: Primary outflows: San Leandro Creek: Catchment area: 21.5 sq mi (56 km 2): Managing agency: East Bay Municipal Utility District: First flooded: 1926: Max. length: 6 mi (9.7 km): Surface area: 620 acres (250 ha): Water volume: 42,000 acre⋅ft (52,000,000 m 3) [2]: Surface elevation: 459 ft (140 m) [1]: Upper San Leandro Reservoir is an ...
The Lafayette Reservoir is an open-cut human-made terminal water storage reservoir owned and operated by the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD). Completed in 1933, it was intended solely as a standby water supply for EBMUD customers. [a] EBMUD opened the reservoir for public recreation in 1966. [3]
Before the East Bay Municipal Utility District built Camanche Dam, a small town called Camanche existed there in the early 1960s. During the Gold Rush, the area in today's West Calaveras south of the Mokelumne River claimed towns called Poverty Bar, Clay's Bar, Winters Bar and Limerick, the latter after the many Irish immigrants who settled ...
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The San Pablo Reservoir is an open cut terminal water storage reservoir owned and operated by the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD). It is located in the valley of San Pablo Creek, north of Orinda, California, United States, and south of El Sobrante and Richmond, east of the Berkeley Hills between San Pablo Ridge and Sobrante Ridge.