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Keswick Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Sacramento River about 2 miles (3.2 km) northwest of Redding, California.Part of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's Central Valley Project, the dam is 157 feet (48 m) high and impounds the Keswick Reservoir, which has a capacity of 23,800 acre⋅ft (29,400,000 m 3).
Water suppliers in parts of Southern California were ordered to impose severe water restrictions. Details of the new rules are starting to take shape. Patrols, fines, altered landscapes: How ...
WASHINGTON -U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday ordered the federal government to override the state of California's water-management practices to bolster firefighting efforts. The executive ...
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The Metropolitan Water District has lifted mandatory water restrictions for nearly 7 million people, but is still urging conservation efforts.
Additional water comes from Lewiston Reservoir, supplied by the Trinity River, via the Clear Creek Tunnel, which comes from the bottom of Lewiston Lake. The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment has issued a safe eating advisory for any fish caught in the Whiskeytown Lake due to elevated levels of mercury.
The water is released to the Sacramento through lower Clear Creek and the Spring Creek Tunnel. The latter furnishes water to the 180 megawatt (MW) Spring Creek Powerplant, which generates about 274 million kilowatt hours (KWh) annually. [5] In addition, there is a 3.5 MW Power Plant at the base of Whiskeytown dam built in 1986 by the city of ...
Calls for water conservation in California haven't worked. Now Gov. Gavin Newsom is threatening mandatory water restrictions if Californians don't start using less water on their own. On Tuesday ...