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Members served by SDCWA include cities, water districts, irrigation districts, municipal water districts, public utility districts, and a military base. The Water Authority was formed in 1944 by the California State Legislature and operates under the County Water Authority Act, [14] which can be found in the California State Water Code. [15]
At this time, due to availability of ground water, less than 10% of the Colorado River Aqueduct's capacity was used, only 178,000 acre-feet (220,000,000 m 3) of water. [4] The San Diego County Water Authority joined Metropolitan as its first wholesale member agency in 1946. SDCWA was formed in 1944 to facilitate joining Metropolitan, received ...
Vallecitos Water District was founded in 1955 as the San Marcos County Water District and is a member agency of the San Diego County Water Authority. [3] [4] The Vallecitos Water District receives approximately 27 percent of its annual supply from the Claude "Bud" Lewis Desalination Plant in Carlsbad, California, which delivers as much as 4,083 ...
As a worsening drought forces millions of Californians to face mandatory water restrictions, one corner of Southern California has largely shielded itself from supply-related woes: San Diego County.
Some of the water is siphoned off in San Jacinto via the San Diego canal, part of the San Diego Aqueduct that delivers water to San Diego County. [ 3 ] Map from The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, History and First Annual Report for the Period Ending June 30, 1938.
This facility, which was approved by the San Diego Water Authority, is responsible for providing water for about 8% of San Diego County's water by the year 2020. [25] The facility cost $1 billion to build and is the largest desalination facility in the Western Hemisphere producing up to 50 million gallons (190,000 m 3) of water per day. [26]
In 1968, the construction of Pipeline 4, of the Second Aqueduct, began. Pipeline 4 was completed in 1971. In 2005, the San Diego County Water Authority began construction on the 11-mile-long (18 km), 8.5-foot-wide (2.6 m) San Vicente Pipeline, connecting San Vicente Reservoir to the Second Aqueduct. Construction on the project was completed in ...
Water from the Lake Hodges Reservoir services the customers of the Santa Fe Irrigation District and the San Dieguito Water District. The dam is 131 ft tall and 729 ft wide. [8] In 2005, the San Diego County Water Authority, in conjunction with the City of San Diego, began work on a pipeline to connect Hodges Reservoir with Olivenhain Reservoir.