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Bethany Reservoir: Bethany Forebay Dam: Italian Slough tributary: Alameda: California Department of Water Resources: 1961: Earth: 95 29: 5,250: 6,480 Big Bear Lake: Bear Valley Dam: Bear Creek: San Bernardino: Big Bear Municipal Water District: 1911: Multiple arch: 80 24: 74,000 [1] 91,000 Big Dry Creek Reservoir: Big Dry Creek Dam: Dry Creek ...
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.
The Sites Reservoir was proposed in the 1950s. [2] California had serious droughts in 1977-1978, 2006–2010, and 2011–2017, raising concern about water insecurity. [3] The project is intended to improve reliability of supply during drought conditions.
Lake Tahoe is the second deepest lake in the U.S. In terms of area covered, the largest lake in California is the Salton Sea, a lake formed in 1905 which is now saline.It occupies 376 square miles (970 km 2) in the southeast corner of the state, but because it is shallow it only holds about 7.5 million acre⋅ft (2.4 trillion US gal; 9.3 trillion L) of water. [2]
In 1966, a bid for constructing the concrete-lined, compacted-earth reservoir was given to Aetron, a subsidiary of Aerojet. [4] [5] [6] The reservoir started being filled in 1970. [7] A 1989 plan to cover the reservoir and others to prevent contamination met local opposition. Area residents believed the cover would attract vandals and be an ...
Lake Mathews is a large reservoir in Riverside County, California, located in the Cajalco Canyon in the foothills of the Temescal Mountains. [1] [2] It is the western terminus for the Colorado River Aqueduct that provides much of the water used by the cities and water districts of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD).
The proposed $4.5 billion Sites Reservoir on ranch lands in Glenn and Colusa counties would be California’s first major reservoir in nearly 50 years. It is designed to capture more water from ...
Lake Casitas is a reservoir in Ventura County, California, built by the United States Bureau of Reclamation and completed in 1959. [2] The project provides drinking water and water for irrigation. [3] [4] A secondary benefit is flood control. It was the venue for canoeing and rowing at the 1984 Summer Olympics.