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Pages in category "Irrigation Districts of the United States" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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 ...
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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]
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).
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 .
About 70% of the water provided by the project is used for urban areas and industry in Southern California and the San Francisco Bay Area, and 30% is used for irrigation in the Central Valley. [5] To reach Southern California, the water must be pumped 2,882 feet (878 m) over the Tehachapi Mountains , with 1,926 feet (587 m) at the Edmonston ...
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