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Prado Dam is an earth-fill dry dam across the Santa Ana River at the Chino Hills near Corona, California in Riverside County with the resulting impounded water creating Prado Flood Control Basin reservoir. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built the dam in Lower Santa Ana River Canyon.
Catchment area: 664 sq mi (1,720 km 2) Basin countries: United States: Managing agency: Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District: Surface area: 525 acres (212 ha) Water volume: 11,586 acre⋅ft (14,291,000 m 3) Shore length 1: 14.9 miles (24.0 km) Surface elevation: 1,365 feet (416 m) Settlements: Canyon Lake, California: Website: www ...
Watershed delineation is the process of identifying the boundary of a watershed, also referred to as a catchment, drainage basin, or river basin.It is an important step in many areas of environmental science, engineering, and management, for example to study flooding, aquatic habitat, or water pollution.
Prado Reservoir is a reservoir in northwestern Riverside County and southwestern San Bernardino County, a couple of miles west of the city of Corona, in the U.S. state of California. The reservoir has a capacity of 362,000 acre-feet (447,000,000 m 3 ) and is formed by Prado Dam on the Santa Ana River .
Riverside county was a major focal point of the Civil Rights Movements in the US, especially the African-American sections of Riverside and heavily Mexican-American communities of the Coachella Valley visited by Cesar Chavez of the farm labor union struggle. Riverside county has also been a focus of modern Native American Gaming enterprises
The dam was proposed in response to major floods in the mid–20th century, and was constructed between 1993 and 2000. Seven Oaks is a dry dam that serves mainly for flood protection to Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino Counties, although it also used to impound water for groundwater recharge.
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