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The Eastern Municipal Water District of Southern California is a regional water district formed in 1950 to secure additional water for a largely rural area of western Riverside County. In addition to water service, responsibilities include sewage collection, water desalination and water recycling.
In 1923, EBMUD was founded due to the rapid population growth and severe drought in the area. The district constructed Pardee Dam (finished in 1929) on the Mokelumne River in the Sierra Nevada, and a large steel pipe Mokelumne Aqueduct to transport the water from Pardee Reservoir across the Central Valley to the San Pablo Reservoir located in the hills of the East Bay region.
El Cerrito (Spanish for "The Little Hill") is a city in Contra Costa County, California, United States, and forms part of the San Francisco Bay Area.It has a population of 25,962 according to the 2020 census.
El Cerrito is located southeast of downtown Corona and about 15 miles (25 km) southwest of the city of Riverside. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 2.8 square miles (7.3 km 2), of which, 2.6 square miles (6.7 km 2) of it is land and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km 2) of it (8.09%) is water.
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Richmond is a city in western Contra Costa County, California, United States.The city was incorporated on August 3, 1905, and has a city council. [14] Located in the San Francisco Bay Area's East Bay region, Richmond borders San Pablo, Albany, El Cerrito and Pinole in addition to the unincorporated communities of North Richmond, Hasford Heights, Kensington, El Sobrante, Bayview-Montalvin Manor ...
The construction of the aqueduct marked the first major water delivery project in California. The city purchased 300,000 acres (1,200 km 2) of land in the Owens Valley in order to gain access to water rights. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power transports 0.4 million acre-feet (0.49 km 3) of Eastern Sierra Nevada water to the city ...
Farmers in Kensington resisted inclusion in the city of El Cerrito when it was incorporated in 1917, and local voters have rejected incorporation various times since then. In the 1920s, the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) constructed an aqueduct through the Berkeley Hills to transport water from the San Pablo Reservoir to a still ...