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Morena Dam is a rockfill dam across Cottonwood Creek, a tributary of the Tijuana River in southern San Diego County, California.Originally completed in 1912 and raised several times afterward, the dam is one of the oldest components of the city of San Diego's municipal water system, [2] [4] providing between 1,600 to 15,000 acre-feet (2,000,000 to 18,500,000 m 3) of water per year. [3]
Morena Dam was constructed between 1896 and 1912 to provide water to the San Diego area. Campo was a station on the San Diego and Arizona Railway, completed in 1919. Campo was a military town during World War II and was known as Camp Lockett.
Barrett Dam is located in a narrow canyon just below the confluence of Cottonwood Creek and Pine Valley Creek, about 35 miles (56 km) east of downtown San Diego. [3] The dam is 171 feet (52 m) high above the riverbed and 746 feet (227 m) long, forming a reservoir with 34,206 acre-feet (42,192,000 m 3 ) of usable capacity. [ 1 ]
Cottonwood Creek is a major stream, about 36 miles (58 km) long, [1] in southern San Diego County, California. It is part of the Tijuana River drainage basin. The creek begins in the Laguna Mountains, in the Cleveland National Forest near Pine Valley. It flows south through the Cottonwood Valley into Lake Morena, which is formed by Morena Dam.
Morena is a neighborhood in San Diego, California, bordered by Bay Park to the north, Linda Vista to the east, Mission Bay to the west, and Mission Valley to the south. [1] E. Mission Bay Drive forms the western boundary. [2] The ZIP Code is 92110.
In 1915 the San Diego City Council, pressured by the San Diego Wide Awake Improvement Club, approached Hatfield to produce rain to fill the reservoir of Morena Dam. Hatfield offered to produce rain for free, then charge $1,000 per inch ($393.7 per centimetre) for between forty and fifty inches (1.02 to 1.27 m) and free again over fifty inches ...
Clairemont Development in the 1950s (courtesy of San Diego Historical Society) Prior to in-migration by Europeans, the area was populated by the Kumeyaay people. The Spanish arrived in 1542 and founded Mission San Diego de Alcalá nearby in 1769.Judge Hyde was one of the first settlers of Clairemont and began farming in Tecolote Canyon in 1872.
In 1967, the City of San Diego established a Historical Resources Board with the authority to protect buildings and other structures as historical landmarks. In total, the city has designated more than 850 structures or other properties as designated historic landmarks.