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The CVP also has several dams on the San Joaquin River—which has far less average flow than the Sacramento—in order to divert its water to southern Central Valley aqueducts. The Friant Dam, completed in 1942, is the largest component of the Friant Division of the CVP. [583]
Dam River County Owner Completed Type Height of dam [a] Reservoir capacity (ft) (m) (acre ft) (1,000 m 3) Almaden Reservoir: Almaden Dam: Alamitos Creek: Santa Clara: Santa Clara Valley Water District: 1935: Earth: 108 33: 1,586: 1,956 Alpine Lake: Alpine Dam: Lagunitas Creek: Marin: Marin Municipal Water District: 1917: Gravity: 143 44: 8,892 ...
Most large reservoirs in California are located in the central and northern portions of the state, especially along the large and flood-prone rivers of the Central Valley. Eleven reservoirs have a storage capacity greater than or equal to 1,000,000 acre-feet (1.2 km 3); all of these except one are in or on drainages that feed into the Central ...
In 1933, the state authorized the sale of bonds to fund the Central Valley Project, whose main component was to be Shasta Dam. [6] [10] Unable to raise the necessary money, California turned to the federal government for help. [17] In 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt authorized the Central Valley Project as part of the New Deal.
The valley in which Friant Dam and Millerton Lake now lie was once the location of the historic town of Millerton. Millerton was the first county seat of Fresno County. [5] [6] In 1880, the first dam on the San Joaquin River was constructed by the Upper San Joaquin Irrigation Company roughly on the present site of Friant Dam. Built of local ...
The Central Valley is a broad, elongated, flat valley that dominates the interior of California.It is 40–60 mi (60–100 km) wide and runs approximately 450 mi (720 km) from north-northwest to south-southeast, inland from and parallel to the Pacific coast of the state.
Salmon are central to the culture and fishing tradition of Native tribes along the Klamath River. But the dams have long blocked the fish from reaching ancestral spawning areas, and have degraded ...
The growing Delta water quality issue provided the initial impetus for building dams on Central Valley rivers to boost dry-season freshwater flows. This eventually became the federal Central Valley Project (CVP), California's first major statewide water system, most of which was built between the 1930s and the 1960s. [27]