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Los Padres Dam Carmel River: Monterey: California American Water Company: 1949 Earth 148 45 1,775 [8] 2,189 Los Vaqueros Reservoir (expanded) Los Vaqueros Dam: off stream reservoir storing Delta diversions: Contra Costa: Contra Costa Water District: 2012 [9] Earth: 218: 70: 160,000: 200,000 Lower Bear River Reservoir: Lower Bear River Dam: Bear ...
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 Merced Irrigation District (MID) operates the dam and was ...
Bear River Dam (National ID # CA00379, also known as the Upper Bear River Dam) is a dam in Amador County, California, [1] due east of Sacramento. The rockfill dam was constructed in 1900 (124 years ago) ( 1900 ) with a height of 83 feet (25 m), and a length of 748 feet (228 m) at its crest. [ 2 ]
Prosser Creek Dam (National ID # CA10179) is a dam in Nevada County, California. [1]The earthen and rockfill dam was constructed from 1959 to 1962 by the United States Bureau of Reclamation with a height of 163 feet (50 m) feet and a crest length of 1,830 feet (560 m). [2]
It was formed in 1963 (61 years ago) () by the 453-foot (138 m) high earth and rockfill Union Valley Dam on Silver Creek, which is a tributary of the American River. The reservoir is part of the Upper American River Project of the Sacramento Municipal Utility District , a public electric utility, which operates the dam and many other dams in ...
Cogswell Dam is a rockfill dam on the West Fork of the San Gabriel River in Los Angeles County, California. It is located in the San Gabriel Mountains, northeast of Mount Wilson, and within the Angeles National Forest. It forms Cogswell Reservoir, which has a capacity of 8,969 acre-feet (11,063,000 m 3). [2]
It's the 100th anniversary of the Colorado River Compact, a seven-state agreement that was signed Nov. 24, 1922. ... The impulse for a high dam on the lower Colorado came largely from California ...
Morena Dam is a rockfill dam across Cottonwood Creek, a tributary of the Tijuana River in southern San Diego County, California. Originally completed in 1912 and raised several times afterward, the dam is one of the oldest components of the city of San Diego 's municipal water system, [ 2 ] [ 4 ] providing between 1,600 to 15,000 acre-feet ...