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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 ...
Humboldt Bay (Wiyot: Wigi) [3] is a natural bay [4] and a multi-basin, bar-built coastal lagoon [5] located on the rugged North Coast of California, entirely within Humboldt County, United States. It is the largest protected body of water on the West Coast between San Francisco Bay and Puget Sound , the second-largest enclosed bay in California ...
Media in category "Featured pictures of California" The following 122 files are in this category, out of 122 total. ... California state coat of arms (illustrated ...
Edmonston Pumping Plant is a pumping station near the south end of the California Aqueduct, which is the principal feature of the California State Water Project. It lifts water 1,926 feet (600 m) to cross the Tehachapi Mountains where it splits into the west and east branches of the California Aqueduct serving Southern California.
The Mulholland Dam is a Los Angeles Department of Water and Power dam located in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, California, east of the Hollywood Freeway.Designed with a storage capacity of 7,900 acre⋅ft (9,700,000 m 3) of water at a maximum depth of 183 feet (56 m), the dam forms the Hollywood Reservoir, which collects water from various aqueducts and impounds the creek of Weid Canyon.
That massive amount of water is fueling anger online, with some on social media erroneously claiming the couple owns 60% of the water in the state and accusing them of being one of the reasons ...
Coastal California is heavily influenced by east–west distances to the dominant cold California Current as well as microclimates.Due to hills and coast ranges having strong meteorological effects, summer and winter temperatures (other than occasional heat waves) are heavily moderated by ocean currents and fog with strong seasonal lags compared to interior valleys as little as 10 mi (16 km) away.
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