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July 24 - The Madera Irrigation District starts the Madera dam project on San Joaquin River which later becomes Friant Dam [67] July 27 - California representative protests Nevada's plan to take Lake Tahoe water [68] July 28 - 800,000 acres of Miller-Lux land and water rights to be subdivided and sold to small farmers [69]
The Madera Canal is a 35.9 mi (57.8 km)-long aqueduct in the U.S. state of California. It is part of the Central Valley Project managed by the United States Bureau of Reclamation to convey water north to augment irrigation capacity in Madera County .
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 GSA Schedule can be thought of as a collection of pre-negotiated contracts. [39] Procurement managers from government agencies can view these agreements and make purchases from the GSA Schedule by following the appropriate procedures prescribed by Federal Acquisition Regulation, or FAR, Subpart 8.4.
Westlands Water District serves as the GSA for the Westside Subbasin. [4] The Westside Subbasin Groundwater Sustainability Plan (Westside GSP) was officially approved by the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) on August 7, 2023. [8] The GSP was submitted by the Westlands Water District, in conforming to requirements of the SGMA.
New Exchequer Dam is a concrete–faced, rock-fill dam on the Merced River in central California in the United States.It forms Lake McClure, which impounds the river for irrigation and hydroelectric power production and has a capacity of more than 1,000,000 acre-feet (1.2 km 3).
In 1929 the district was set up with an area of 600 square miles (1,600 km 2) and served a population of around 1,600,000 in 13 cities. [ 3 ] During the aqueduct's first five years of service from 1941 to 1946 it delivered an average of about 27,000 acre-feet (33,000,000 m 3 ) of water, using less than 2% of its capacity.
Only the Fresno Irrigation District is contracted for CVP water, but other Kings River users can also purchase CVP water in times of need, such as droughts. [22] Summer water demand for irrigation is typically in the range of 6,000 to 7,000 cubic feet per second (170 to 200 m 3 /s). [22]