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The East Bay Municipal Utility District provides water and sewage services to 1.4 million people in the East Bay subregion in the Bay Area. Independent special districts have elected boards. Dependent special districts are governed by the city or county that created them.
In 1923, EBMUD was founded due to the rapid population growth and severe drought in the area. The district constructed Pardee Dam (finished in 1929) on the Mokelumne River in the Sierra Nevada, and a large steel pipe Mokelumne Aqueduct to transport the water from Pardee Reservoir across the Central Valley to the San Pablo Reservoir located in the hills of the East Bay region.
Today, this definition is accepted by most local governmental agencies including San Francisco Regional Water Quality Control Board, [66] Bay Area Air Quality Management District, [67] the San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority, [68] the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, [69] and the Association of Bay Area Governments, [70] the latter ...
A water district is a special district given the task of supplying water and sewer needs to a community. This term is commonly used in the United States. [1] See also
In the United States an irrigation district is a cooperative, self-governing public corporation set up as a subdivision of the State government, with definite geographic boundaries, organized, and having taxing power to obtain and distribute water for irrigation of lands within the district; created under the authority of a State legislature with the consent of a designated fraction of the ...
The bay of Baracoa, Cuba. A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. [1] [2] [3] A large bay is usually called a gulf, sea, sound, or bight. A cove is a small, circular bay with a narrow entrance. A fjord is an elongated bay formed by glacial action ...
In 2019 the Metropolitan Water District played a crucial role in the development of the Colorado River Drought Contingency Plan (DCP). The Drought Contingency Plan aims to implement legislation to reduce the risk of declining levels in the Colorado River reservoirs, particularly by incentivizing agencies to store additional water in Lake Powell and Lake Mead. [7]
The aqueduct is the sole water supply for about 1.4 million people in the East Bay. [1] Under present water rights agreements, EBMUD can withdraw up to 325 million gallons (1,230,000 m 3) per day, or 364,000 acre-feet (0.449 km 3) per year, from the Mokelumne River.