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List of State Water Project water contractors [73] Agency or entity Annual allocation Share acre.ft dam 3; Alameda County Flood Control and Water Conservation District 80,619 99,442 1.9% Alameda County Water District 42,000 52,000 1.0% Antelope Valley-East Kern Water Agency 144,844 178,662 3.5% Butte County: 27,500 33,900 0.6% Castaic Water ...
Map of water storage and delivery facilities as well as major rivers and cities in the state of California. Central Valley Project systems are in red, and State Water Project in blue. California's interconnected water system serves almost 40 million people and irrigates over 5,680,000 acres (2,300,000 ha) of farmland. [1]
Map of California's interconnected water system, including all eleven reservoirs over 1,000,000 acre-feet (1.2 km 3) as well as selected smaller ones. This is a list of the largest reservoirs, or man-made lakes, in the U.S. state of California.
San Luis Dam, a jointly-owned state and federal facility, stores more than 2 million acre feet (2.5 km 3) of water for the California State Water Project and the federal Central Valley Project. Although the dam is located in the valley of San Luis Creek , the majority of its water comes from man-made aqueducts which are supplied from other ...
The West San Joaquin Division and San Luis Unit consist of several major facilities that are shared with the federal California State Water Project (SWP). [589] San Luis Dam (or B.F. Sisk Dam) is the largest storage facility, holding 2,000,000 acre-feet (2,500,000 dam 3) of water.
California's Department of Water Resources set its initial water allocation for the State Water Project at 5% — a level that could change in the coming months depending on the weather.
Named after California Governor Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown Sr., the over 400-mile (640 km) aqueduct is the principal feature of the California State Water Project. The aqueduct begins at the Clifton Court Forebay at the southwestern corner of the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta.
Bonanza Spring is the largest fresh water spring system in the Mojave Desert. The spring is within the boundaries of the Bonanza Springs Wildlife Area managed by the Bureau of Land Management. It is located in San Bernardino County approximately 50 miles due west from Needles, California, and a couple miles north of Route 66 near Essex, California.