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Lake Mission Viejo is a reservoir created for recreation in Mission Viejo, Orange County, California, United States. The reservoir is formed by an earthfill dam across the canyon of Oso Creek , [ 1 ] which is part of the Trabuco Creek and San Juan Creek drainage basin . [ 2 ]
Reservoirs in San Bernardino County, California (9 P) Reservoirs in San Diego County, California ... Lake Mission Viejo;
Mission Viejo (/ v i ˈ eɪ h oʊ / vee-AY-hoh; corruption of Misión Vieja [miˈsjon ˈbjexa]; Spanish for 'Old Mission') is a commuter city in the Saddleback Valley in Orange County, California, United States. Mission Viejo is considered one of the largest master-planned communities ever built under a single project in the United States and ...
The Upper Oso Reservoir and Lake Mission Viejo, both on Oso Creek, are the largest impoundments in the watershed, holding about 7,500 acre-feet (9,300,000 m 3) combined. While Lake Mission Viejo was built solely for recreation, the 115-acre (0.47 km 2) Upper Oso Reservoir
The population was 47,853 at the 2010 census, up from 47,214 at the 2000 census. Although it is named for Rancho Santa Margarita y Las Flores, which was in San Diego County, the city limits fall within the borders of Rancho Mission Viejo. At 20 characters long (22 including spaces), it is the longest city name in California.
The region primarily encompasses the cities of Mission Viejo, Lake Forest, and Rancho Santa Margarita, as well as the communities of Coto de Caza and Ladera Ranch. The cities of Aliso Viejo , Laguna Woods , Laguna Hills , and Laguna Niguel , as well as some of Orange County's eastern canyon communities, partially reside within the valley.
Lake Tahoe is the second deepest lake in the U.S. In terms of area covered, the largest lake in California is the Salton Sea, a lake formed in 1905 which is now saline.It occupies 376 square miles (970 km 2) in the southeast corner of the state, but because it is shallow it only holds about 7.5 million acre⋅ft (2.4 trillion US gal; 9.3 trillion L) of water. [2]
In 1985, Ngoy and his wife became American citizens assuming the American names of Ted and Christy, respectively, and were enjoying a lavish lifestyle including a million dollar home at Lake Mission Viejo, a vacation home in Big Bear, expensive cars, and vacations to Europe. Ngoy had become an example to other Cambodian immigrants, who began to ...