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Friant Dam & Millerton Lake, 2012. Friant Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the San Joaquin River in central California in the United States, on the boundary of Fresno and Madera Counties. It was built between 1937 and 1942 as part of a U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) water project to provide irrigation water to the southern San Joaquin Valley.
Millerton Lake is an artificial lake near the town of Friant, about 15 mi (24 km) north of downtown Fresno, California, United States.The reservoir was created by the construction of 319 ft (97 m) high Friant Dam on the San Joaquin River which, with the lake, serves as much of the county line between Fresno County to the south and Madera County to the north.
Friant-Kern canal delivers water to numerous districts, cities, and up to 15,000 family farms. The canal stems from the Friant Dam located in the Sierra Nevada foothills, near the town of Friant. Built by the Bureau of Reclamation, the dam reaches a height of 319 feet and a length of 3,488 feet storing approximately 520,500 acre feet of water.
A security fence prevents people from walking across Friant Dam near Friant, California, as photographed January 25, 2024. Millerton Lake is seen on the right. Tours ‘stopped’ after 9/11
The Friant Dam, completed in 1942, is the largest component of the Friant Division of the CVP. [583] The dam crosses the San Joaquin River where it spills out of the Sierra Nevada, forming Millerton Lake , [ 584 ] which provides water storage for San Joaquin Valley irrigators as well as providing a diversion point for a pair of canals, the ...
Water releases can be seen from Friant Dam at Millerton Lake in Friant where lake levels have reached more than 80 percent-full following several atmospheric river events, on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023.
The Friant-Kern Canal east of Fresno was built to distribute water through the eastern parts of the Central Valley, however, altered the natural flows of the San Joaquin River between the Friant Dam and confluence of the Merced River. The Delta–Mendota Canal was approved for the exchange of water rights in the downstream portion of the San ...
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