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Loch Lomond (California) Newell Creek Dam: Newell Creek: Santa Cruz: Santa Cruz Water Dept. [7] 1960: Earth: 190 58: 9,200: 11,300 Loon Lake: Loon Lake Dam: Gerle Creek: El Dorado: Sacramento Municipal Utility District: 1963: Rock-fill: 108: 33: 76,500: 94,500 Lopez Lake: Lopez Dam: Arroyo Grande Creek: San Luis Obispo: San Luis Obispo County ...
Santiago Creek is a major watercourse in Orange County in the U.S. state of California. About 34 miles (55 km) long, it drains most of the northern Santa Ana Mountains and is a tributary to the Santa Ana River. It is one of the longest watercourses entirely within the county. [2]
The Sacramento Weir is opened manually when the Sacramento River reaches 27.5 feet (8.4 m) at the I Street Bridge. It was built in 1916 by the City of Sacramento and contains 48 gates over its 1,920-foot (590 m) length; water from the Sacramento Weir flows through the 1 mile (1.6 km) long Sacramento Bypass and drains into the Yolo Bypass. [6]
A drop structure, also known as a grade control, sill, or weir, is a manmade structure, typically small and built on minor streams, or as part of a dam's spillway, to pass water to a lower elevation while controlling the energy and velocity of the water as it passes over.
In 1999, the state of California implemented the Kings River Fisheries Management Program, which has helped recover the fishery by mandating a minimum cold water pool of 100,000 acre-feet (0.12 km 3) in Pine Flat Reservoir, and enforcing angling restrictions.
Stanford installed Los Trancos Creek Diversion Dam in 1929, to divert stream flows to its Felt Lake water storage reservoir. The dam, located just below the intersection of Arastradero and Alpine Roads, blocks access of upmigrating steelhead trout to over 3 miles (4.8 km) of pristine upstream spawning grounds. [34]
(By then the state had all but gone to war with California over water rights on the river, dispatching a squad of National Guard troops to the river on a ferryboat to block construction of Parker ...
Calero Dam (Santa Clara County, California) Calero Reservoir; Camanche Dam; Camp Far West Dam; Canyon Dam (California) Cape Horn Dam; Carbon Canyon Dam; Casitas Dam; Cedar Lake (California) Cherry Valley Dam; Clear Lake Dam; Clear Lake Reservoir; Combie Dam; Copco No 1 Dam; Courtright Dam; Coyote Dam (Santa Clara County, California) Coyote ...