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Lake Hemet is an artificial lake in the San Jacinto Mountains, 4,340 ft (1,323 m) above sea level. Lake Hemet is part of the San Bernardino National Forest. Lake Hemet has a surface area of 470 acres (190 ha) [2] and 12 miles (19 km) of shoreline. Fishing is the primary attraction to the lake, which is stocked with rainbow trout, channel ...
Construction of the Lake Hemet Dam began on January 6, 1891, by the Lake Hemet Water Company. Construction was completed in 1895. When built, the Lake Hemet Dam was the largest solid masonry dam in the world at a height of 122.5 feet (37.3 m) until it was surpassed in height by the Roosevelt Dam in 1911. In 1923, the height of the dam was ...
The Eastern Municipal Water District of Southern California is a regional water district formed in 1950 to secure additional water for a largely rural area of western Riverside County. In addition to water service, responsibilities include sewage collection, water desalination and water recycling. EMWD also sells to eight other water agencies ...
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). The lake nearly doubled the area's surface water storage capacity and provides additional water supplies ...
A stream gauge, streamgage or stream gauging station is a location used by hydrologists or environmental scientists to monitor and test terrestrial bodies of water. Hydrometric measurements of water level surface elevation ("stage") and/or volumetric discharge (flow) are generally taken and observations of biota and water quality may also be ...
List of dams and reservoirs in California. 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.
Media in category "Lakes of Riverside County, California". The following 2 files are in this category, out of 2 total. GreetingsFromNorthShoresm.gif 396 × 252; 109 KB. Lake hemet hist3.jpg 200 × 150; 13 KB. Categories: Tourist attractions in Riverside County, California. Lakes of California by county. Geography of Riverside County, California.
The San Jacinto River is a 42-mile-long (68 km) [5] river in Riverside County, California. The river's headwaters are in Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument. [6] The lower portion of the 765-square-mile (1,980 km 2) watershed is urban and agricultural land. As a partially endorheic watershed that is contiguous with other ...