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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 (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.
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.
The 991 acre-foot (1.2 million cubic meter) dam provides water conservation and controls flooding from Big Dalton Canyon, a watershed within the San Dimas Experimental Forest, part of the Angeles National Forest in the San Gabriel Mountains.
Assembly members Party Years served Counties represented Notes Henry C. Firebaugh: Republican: January 5, 1885 - January 3, 1887 San Francisco: Henry R. Mann: Democratic: January 3, 1887 - January 7, 1889 Henry C. Dibble: Republican: January 7, 1889 - January 2, 1893 John M. Curtis: Democratic: January 2, 1893 - January 7, 1895 Frank Hubbard ...
The Council for Watershed Health (CWH) is a nonprofit environmental organization in the U.S. state of California. It was founded in 1996 by Dorothy Green to preserve, restore, and enhance the Los Angeles and San Gabriel River watersheds.
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Northeast San Dimas 1,261 Northeast Whittier 1,053 Northwest Whittier 4,335 Norwalk/Cerritos Islands 336 Oat Mountain 1,385 Quartz Hill: 16,081 Rose Hills: 2,803 Rowland Heights: 48,993 San Gabriel Mountains 3,003 San Pasqual: 2,044 Sawtelle Veterans Administration Center: 634 South Antelope Valley 10,214 South Monrovia Island: 6,777 South ...