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U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Prado Flood Control Basin; Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) documentation, filed under Santa Ana River near junction of State Highways 71 and 91, Corona, Riverside County, CA: HAER No. CA-178, "Prado Dam", 7 photos, 109 data pages, 2 photo caption pages
The Eastern Municipal Water District of Southern California is a regional water district formed in 1950 to secure additional water for a largely rural area of western Riverside County. In addition to water service, responsibilities include sewage collection, water desalination and water recycling.
Corona is Spanish for crown or wreath.Originally called South Riverside, citizens wanted to distinguish their city from the larger city of Riverside to the north. When it came time to incorporate the city a number of different names were considered, but the name Corona was chosen to play upon a unique feature of the city, the one-mile diameter drive that circled the center of the town.
Prado Reservoir is a reservoir in northwestern Riverside County and southwestern San Bernardino County, a couple of miles west of the city of Corona, in the U.S. state of California. The reservoir has a capacity of 362,000 acre-feet (447,000,000 m 3 ) and is formed by Prado Dam on the Santa Ana River .
When it was open, the California Aqueduct Bikeway was the longest of the paved paths in the Los Angeles area, at 107 miles (172 km) long from Quail Lake near Gorman in the Sierra Pelona Mountains through the desert to Silverwood Lake in the San Bernardino Mountains. This path was closed in 1988 due to bicyclist safety and liability issues.
Dams and pipelines were built to carry the water to the colony. [4] By the time the U. S. Geological Survey mapped the area in 1897-98 for the Elsinore Quadrangle, California the dam and Lee Lake appear on the map. [5] Recently it has been called Corona Lake by a fishing enterprise that operates there. [6]
They also secured the water rights to Temescal Creek, its tributaries and Lee Lake. Dams and pipelines were built to carry the water to the colony. In 1889 the Temescal Water Company was incorporated, to supply water for the new colony. This company purchased all the water-bearing lands in the valley and began drilling artesian wells. [3]
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.