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Diamond Valley Lake is a man-made off-stream reservoir located near Hemet, California, United States. It is one of the largest reservoirs in Southern California and one of the newest. It has a capacity of 800,000 acre-feet (990,000,000 m 3 ).
Lake Mathews is a large reservoir in Riverside County, California, located in the Cajalco Canyon in the foothills of the Temescal Mountains. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is the western terminus for the Colorado River Aqueduct that provides much of the water used by the cities and water districts of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD).
Black Lake (Louisiana) (also known as Black-Clear Lake in Natchitoches Parish) Black Bayou Reservoir located in Bossier Parish [18] Bundick Lake near Dry Creek; Caddo Lake (extends into Texas) Caillou Lake in Terrebonne Parish; Calcasieu Lake; Caney Creek Lake in Jackson Parish; Carencro Lake in Terrebonne Parish; Catahoula Lake; Lake Cataouatche
Diamond Valley Lake, with a storage capacity of 800,000 acre-feet (0.99 km 3), is the largest and most recently constructed. Lake Elsinore is the only major natural lake in the watershed. [20] The channeled mouth of the Santa Ana River between Huntington Beach and Newport Beach
Diamond Valley Lake — a backbone of the region's water storage system — should refill to its full capacity by the end of this year, officials said.
The feeder system includes three large tunnels, two running through the San Bernardino Mountains and one running under the Riverside Badlands between Redlands and Moreno Valley. Construction began in 1997 and water began flowing through the system in mid-2010. As of 2010, it is the only source of water for Diamond Valley Lake.
Diamond Valley Lake is their third and newest reservoir, with a capacity of 810,000 acre-feet (1.00 × 10 9 m 3) of water. This capacity is over twice as large as that of Castaic Lake, the next largest reservoir in Southern California maintained by the state Department of Water Resources.
Eleven reservoirs have a storage capacity greater than or equal to 1,000,000 acre-feet (1.2 km 3); all of these except one are in or on drainages that feed into the Central Valley. The largest single reservoir in California is Shasta Lake , with a full volume of more than 4,552,000 acre-feet (5.615 km 3 ).