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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 .
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]
Modesto Irrigation District and Turlock Irrigation District: 1971: Earth and rock: 568 173: 2,030,000: ... Madera and Mariposa: United States Army Corps of Engineers ...
Further downstream, on the northeast edge of Madera, is the John Franchi Diversion Dam, a 15-foot (4.6 m) high, 263-foot (80 m)-wide earth and steel dam that is used to divert water into the Big Main Canal. [4] The dam was built by the United States Bureau of Reclamation in 1964 and is operated by the Madera Irrigation District. From this point ...
In terms of degree days, Madera averages 4259 degree days according to records kept by the Madera Irrigation District. [citation needed] This contrasts with warmer areas both to the north where Merced averages 4430 degree days, and to the south where Fresno averages 4680 degree days. The growing season in the Madera viticultural area averages ...
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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Madera Irrigation District reported that they were able to restore 2,500 acre-feet (3.1 million cubic meters) of water in 2017 to aquifers by releasing unused irrigation water onto flood land available to them. They reported that some growers also released excess water allotted to them on flood lands to help restore aquifers.