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Dominguez Channel (Spanish: Canal de Domínguez) [1] is a 15.7-mile-long (25.3 km) [2] stream in southern Los Angeles County, California, in the center of the Dominguez Watershed of 133 square miles (340 km 2). [3] The watershed area is 96 percent developed and largely residential.
Ventura County, Los Angeles County: 4,530 sq mi (11,700 km 2) HUC180201: 180702 Santa Ana water resource basin: The drainage into the Pacific Ocean from the San Gabriel River Basin boundary to the Moro Canyon drainage boundary near Laguna Beach, California. Los Angeles County, Orange County: 2,680 sq mi (6,900 km 2) HUC180202: 180703
Hollywood Reservoir, a source of drinking water for the city of Los Angeles, California. The reservoir has a capacity of 7,900 acre-feet, [7] which is 2.5 billion US gallons (9,500,000 m 3) and a maximum water depth of 183 feet (56 m). During its first years in service the reservoir level varied, though for most of the time it was kept at a ...
This lake was created in 1972, [1] and completed in 1973, as a holding reservoir for the California State Water Project. The lake was named after a pyramid-shaped rock carved out by engineers building U.S. Route 99. [2] Travelers between Los Angeles and Bakersfield christened the landmark “Pyramid Rock,” which still stands just adjacent to ...
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is the largest municipal utility in the United States with 8,100 megawatts of electric generating capacity (2021–2022) and delivering an average of 435 million gallons of water per day (487,000 acre-ft per year) to more than four million residents and local businesses in the City of Los Angeles and several adjacent cities and communities ...
L.A. County has captured enough stormwater to supply an estimated 2.4 million people for a year. Officials say they plan to capture more runoff in the future.
According to The Associated Press, The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power was pumping from aqueducts and groundwater into the system, but "demand was so high that it wasn't enough to refill ...
The reservoirs are owned by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. The main reservoir, which is the lower reservoir and the larger of the two, is situated south of the upper reservoir. It was designed and built in 1924 by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power's water branch, the Bureau of Water Works and Supply (BWWS). [2]