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Friant Dam & Millerton Lake, 2012. Friant Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the San Joaquin River in central California in the United States, on the boundary of Fresno and Madera Counties. It was built between 1937 and 1942 as part of a U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) water project to provide irrigation water to the southern San Joaquin Valley.
Millerton Lake is an artificial lake near the town of Friant, about 15 mi (24 km) north of downtown Fresno, California, United States.The reservoir was created by the construction of 319 ft (97 m) high Friant Dam on the San Joaquin River which, with the lake, serves as much of the county line between Fresno County to the south and Madera County to the north.
This is a list of rivers in the state of Oklahoma, listed by drainage basin, alphabetically, and by size. In mean flow of water per second, the Arkansas is Oklahoma's largest river, followed by the Red River and the Neosho River .
A security fence prevents people from walking across Friant Dam near Friant, California, as photographed January 25, 2024. Millerton Lake is seen on the right. Tours ‘stopped’ after 9/11
Water releases can be seen from Friant Dam at Millerton Lake in Friant where lake levels have reached more than 80 percent-full following several atmospheric river events, on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023.
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This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Rivers of Oklahoma. It includes rivers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. This is a container category .
Friant-Kern canal delivers water to numerous districts, cities, and up to 15,000 family farms. The canal stems from the Friant Dam located in the Sierra Nevada foothills, near the town of Friant. Built by the Bureau of Reclamation, the dam reaches a height of 319 feet and a length of 3,488 feet storing approximately 520,500 acre feet of water.