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A canal carrying water from the Kings River in the San Joaquin Valley. Almost all of the Kings River's water is consumed for agriculture. The river irrigates about 1.1 million acres (4,500 km 2) [22] of some of the most productive farmland in the United States; in 2009 the Kings delta produced crops valued at more than $3 billion. [22]
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The North Fork Kings River is a 40.3-mile (64.9 km) [2] tributary of the Kings River, in the U.S. state of California. The river's main stem is entirely within Fresno County , and its watershed drains about 387 square miles (1,000 km 2 ) of the southern Sierra Nevada mountain range.
In a span of nine hours on Monday, water in the White Oak Bayou rose 25 feet, while water in the Buffalo Bayou rose 24 feet. More: See Texas power outage map as Hurricane Beryl makes landfall near ...
The reservoir was created in 1953 when the City of Houston built the dam to impound a reservoir to replace Sheldon Lake, then the primary source of water for the city. The city sold Sheldon Lake to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department for use as a waterfowl sanctuary and public fishing site.
The reference water levels are used on inland waterways to define a range of water levels allowing the full use of the waterway for navigation. [1] Ship passage can be limited by the water levels that are too low, when the fairway might become too shallow for large ("target", "design") ships, or too high, when it might become impossible for the target ships to pass under the bridges. [1]
Lake Houston, an 11,854-acre (4,797-hectare) reservoir located approximately 15 miles (24 km) northeast of Downtown, was created by damming the San Jacinto River in the 1950s to create a dependable, long-term supply of drinking water. [21]