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The Nacimiento River watershed comprises 361.5 square miles (936 km 2), [8] with about 54 percent in San Luis Obispo County and 46 percent in Monterey County. [9] The crest of the Santa Lucia Range , part of the Coast Ranges , forms the southwestern boundary of the Nacimiento River watershed.
Lake Nacimiento can also produce power from a turbine at the base of the dam. According to the Salinas Californian newspaper, the Monterey County Board of Supervisors (Marc Del Piero, Barbara Shipnuck, Dusan Petrovic, Sam Karas, and Karin Strasser-Kaufman) appropriated the funds to build the turbine, which increased "green energy" supplies for ...
The community of Lake Nacimiento is located at Lake Nacimiento reservoir, in the Santa Lucia Mountains, at (35.737585, -120.881328 [2]According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 10.3 square miles (27 km 2), 99.77% of it land and 0.23% of it water.
Corona del Mar, California. Known for its stunning beaches and quaint village shops, one particular view stops us in our tracks: the rock formations along its coastline—a perfect dupe for ...
Nacimiento Mountains, a mountain range in the northwestern part of the US state of New Mexico; Cerro del Nacimiento, a mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina; Nacimiento Formation, a Paleocene-age rock unit in the San Juan Basin of New Mexico; Nacimiento River, in California; Lake Nacimiento, in California
Nacimiento Dam is a dam on the Nacimiento River about 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Paso Robles, California in the United States.The primary purpose of the dam is to provide groundwater recharge for agriculture in Monterey County and northern San Luis Obispo County supported by the Salinas Valley aquifer, as well as flood control, domestic water supply, and hydropower.
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]
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in California in a sortable table. There are over 1,400 named dams and 1,300 named reservoirs in the state of California . Dams in service