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Diamond Valley Lake is located within the Domenigoni/Diamond valleys, between the Domenigoni Mountains and Rawson Mountains, 4 miles (6.4 km) southwest of the city of Hemet. The site was chosen because of its location between the cities of San Diego and Los Angeles, and because of the raw materials located on-site for the construction of the ...
The feeder system includes three large tunnels, two running through the San Bernardino Mountains and one running under the Riverside Badlands between Redlands and Moreno Valley. Construction began in 1997 and water began flowing through the system in mid-2010. As of 2010, it is the only source of water for Diamond Valley Lake.
Diamond Valley Lake, the largest drinking water reservoir in Southern California, is now 97% full. And the MWD is projected to finish the year with a record 3.9 million acre-feet of water banked ...
Diamond Valley Lake is their third and newest reservoir, with a capacity of 810,000 acre-feet (1.00 × 10 9 m 3) of water. This capacity is over twice as large as that of Castaic Lake, the next largest reservoir in Southern California maintained by the state Department of Water Resources.
Diamond Valley Lake — a backbone of the region's water storage system — should refill to its full capacity by the end of this year, officials said.
Diamond Valley Lake - Riverside County. Percent of historic average: 120%. Percent of total capacity: 90%. New Bullards Bar Reservoir - Yuba County.
Eleven reservoirs have a storage capacity greater than or equal to 1,000,000 acre-feet (1.2 km 3); all of these except one are in or on drainages that feed into the Central Valley. The largest single reservoir in California is Shasta Lake , with a full volume of more than 4,552,000 acre-feet (5.615 km 3 ).
Diamond Valley Lake, with a storage capacity of 800,000 acre-feet (0.99 km 3), is the largest and most recently constructed. Lake Elsinore is the only major natural lake in the watershed. [20] The channeled mouth of the Santa Ana River between Huntington Beach and Newport Beach