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The valley in which Friant Dam and Millerton Lake now lie was once the location of the historic town of Millerton. Millerton was the first county seat of Fresno County. [5] [6] In 1880, the first dam on the San Joaquin River was constructed by the Upper San Joaquin Irrigation Company roughly on the present site of Friant Dam. Built of local ...
Sep 24 - CVP coordinator announces operational schedules including Friant dam diversion to start in 1944 [234] Sept 28 - Ickes announces PG&E contract to buy all Shasta dam power agreed to [235] Dec 29 - War Production Board refuses to fund the CVP's Friant-Kern Canal [236] 1944 Jan 14 - 90 year dream - Shasta reservoir is filling up [237]
Millerton Lake is an artificial lake near the town of Friant, about 15 mi (24 km) north of downtown Fresno, California, United States.The reservoir was created by the construction of 319 ft (97 m) high Friant Dam on the San Joaquin River which, with the lake, serves as much of the county line between Fresno County to the south and Madera County to the north.
A security fence prevents people from walking across Friant Dam near Friant, California, as photographed January 25, 2024. Millerton Lake is seen on the right. Tours ‘stopped’ after 9/11
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Friant-Kern canal delivers water to numerous districts, cities, and up to 15,000 family farms. The canal stems from the Friant Dam located in the Sierra Nevada foothills, near the town of Friant. Built by the Bureau of Reclamation, the dam reaches a height of 319 feet and a length of 3,488 feet storing approximately 520,500 acre feet of water.
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The Friant-Kern Canal east of Fresno was built to distribute water through the eastern parts of the Central Valley, however, altered the natural flows of the San Joaquin River between the Friant Dam and confluence of the Merced River. The Delta–Mendota Canal was approved for the exchange of water rights in the downstream portion of the San ...