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Website. www.sweetwater.org /258 /Sweetwater-Reservoir. Sweetwater Reservoir as seen from San Miguel Mountain in 2006. Sweetwater Reservoir is a 960-acre (390 ha) artificial lake in San Diego County, California, formed by the Sweetwater Dam on the Sweetwater River. Construction of the dam was completed in 1888.
The Sweetwater Dam is a dam across the Sweetwater River in San Diego County, California. It is located approximately 12 miles (19 km) east of San Diego, 9 miles (14 km) and borders Bonita to the southwest and La Presa to the northeast. The 108-foot (33 m)-high masonry arch dam impounds 960-acre (390 ha) Sweetwater Reservoir.
The Sweetwater River is a 55-mile (89 km) long stream in San Diego County, California. From its headwaters high in the Cuyamaca Mountains, the river flows generally southwest, first through rugged hinterlands but then into the urban areas surrounding its mouth at San Diego Bay. Its drainage basin covers more than 230 square miles (600 km 2 ...
454 acres (184 ha) Loveland Dam (also called Sweetwater Falls Dam) is a dam across the Sweetwater River in San Diego County, California. The dam forms long, narrow Loveland Reservoir which stores 25,387 acre-feet (31,314,000 m 3) of water. [1] It is operated primarily for flood control and municipal water storage in conjunction with downstream ...
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]
Salmon Falls, California was an old mining town established along the banks of the American River at the mouth of Sweetwater Creek (northeast of present-day Folsom, California). Since the construction of Folsom Dam in the 1950s (which created Folsom Lake) Salmon Falls is typically immersed in water throughout much of the year. However, at low ...
Sweetwater River (California), San Diego County Sweetwater Dam, a dam across the Sweetwater River; Sweetwater Reservoir, an artificial lake, formed by the Sweetwater Dam; Sweetwater Mountains a small mountain range in California and western Nevada; Sweetwater Formation, a geologic stratigraphic formation in California; Sweetwater, Miami-Dade ...
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in California in a sortable table. ... Lake Loveland: Loveland Dam: Sweetwater River: San Diego: South Bay Irrigation District: