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The dam is surrounded by the San Gabriel Mountains and has an incoming flow from the San Dimas Creek. The dam controls flooding from San Dimas Creek, a major San Gabriel Mountains drainage and tributary of the San Gabriel River. The dam diverts floodwater to Puddingstone Reservoir, protecting the area in and around San Dimas. [6]
San Dimas Museum: San Dimas: San Gabriel Valley: Local history: Operated by the San Dimas Historical Society San Gabriel River Discovery Center: South El Monte: San Gabriel Valley: Natural history: planned museum to complement the existing Whittier Narrows Nature Center, focus on local watershed issues Santa Monica History Museum: Santa Monica ...
Big Dalton Dam near full capacity, February 15, 1973. Big Dalton Dam is a multiple arch concrete dam in Los Angeles County, California, built for the Los Angeles County Flood Control District and completed in August 1929.
It impounds Walnut Creek, a tributary of the San Gabriel River, to form Puddingstone Reservoir, which can hold more than 20,000 acre⋅ft (25,000,000 m 3) of water. [1] The reservoir stores floodwater from both the Walnut Creek Wash, and also the San Dimas Wash, to which it is connected by a short artificial channel below San Dimas Dam.
San Dimas may refer to: San Dimas Municipality, Durango, Mexico; San Dimas, California, United States; San Dimas (reserve), a biosphere reserve and experimental forest in southern California; San Dimas Dam, in California, United States; San Dimas (guitar), model of electric guitar made by Charvel
Los Angeles County has five major drainage basins, or watersheds: Santa Clara River, Ballona Creek, Dominguez Channel, Los Angeles River, and San Gabriel River. Before the formation of the basin, the area that encompasses the Los Angeles basin began above ground.
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San Dimas (Spanish for "Saint Dismas") [10] is a city in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles County, California, United States. At the 2020 census , its population was 34,924. It historically took its name from San Dimas Canyon in the San Gabriel Mountains above the northern section of present-day San Dimas.