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This lake was created in 1972, [1] and completed in 1973, as a holding reservoir for the California State Water Project. The lake was named after a pyramid-shaped rock carved out by engineers building U.S. Route 99. [2] Travelers between Los Angeles and Bakersfield christened the landmark “Pyramid Rock,” which still stands just adjacent to ...
Pyramid Lake is a lake in the backcountry of the Desolation Wilderness in the Sierra Nevada of El Dorado County, California. Pyramid Lake outlet pool in spring ...
English: A series of United States Indian reservation locator maps, constructed mostly with Tiger/LINE and BIA open data, with supplements from the Canadian and Mexican censuses. Generated on July 24, 2019.
The Truckee River is a river in the U.S. states of California and Nevada.The river flows northeasterly and is 121 miles (195 km) long. [3] [6] The Truckee is the sole outlet of Lake Tahoe and drains part of the high Sierra Nevada, emptying into Pyramid Lake in the Great Basin.
The Warne Plant was constructed by the state of California in 1983. Pyramid Lake has a surface area of 1,380 acres (560 ha) and a storage capacity of 180,000 acre-feet (220,000,000 m 3) with a maximum water surface elevation of 2,578 feet (786 m) above sea level. Pyramid Lake is the upper forebay for the Castaic Power Plant.
The lake is situated downstream from Pyramid Lake and can be accessed from Piru Canyon Road near the town of Piru, California. The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has developed a safe eating advisory for Lake Piru based on levels of mercury or PCBs found in fish caught from this water body. [9]
Vista del Lago Visitors Center is a visitor center above Pyramid Lake in Los Angeles County, between the communities of Gorman and Castaic, near Interstate 5. It features an outdoor overlook of Pyramid Lake and interpretive displays by the California Department of Water Resources , including slide shows and a video.
Castaic Dam on the creek forms Castaic Lake, but most of the water comes from the West Branch of the West Branch California Aqueduct, part of the California State Water Project. The 323,700 acre-foot (399,300,000 m 3) lake is the terminus for west branch of the aqueduct. The aqueduct delivers water to the lake by a pipeline from Pyramid Lake.