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The Great Central Valley Project by Stephen Johnson, Robert Dawson and author Gerald Haslam; The Southern Pacific railroad, currently known as BNSF Railway was the Central Valley's largest owner and played a major role in its evolution, from the Mussel Slough Tragedy, the California Development Company's Salton Sea, its land grabs [615]
The rules under revision govern dams, aqueducts and pumping plants in California’s two main water systems, the Central Valley Project and the State Water Project, which deliver water to millions ...
The Central Valley Project (est. 1933) — a U.S. Bureau of Reclamation water management project to provide irrigation and municipal water to the Central Valley of California. The project's infrastructure also transports water from Sierra Nevada rivers and the wetter (northern) Sacramento Valley to the drier (southern) San Joaquin Valley.
The valley in which Friant Dam and Millerton Lake now lie was once the location of the historic town of Millerton. Millerton was the first county seat of Fresno County. [5] [6] In 1880, the first dam on the San Joaquin River was constructed by the Upper San Joaquin Irrigation Company roughly on the present site of Friant Dam. Built of local ...
The 2021 study noted the especially long and wide canals of the State Water Project and the federal Central Valley Project. They consume massive amounts of power to pump farm water south from the ...
The C.W. Bill Jones Pumping Plant (formerly the Tracy Pumping Plant) [1] located 9 miles (14 km) northwest of Tracy, California, was constructed between 1947 and 1951, and is a key component of the Central Valley Project. [2]
The Central Valley Project is a network of 20 dams, reservoirs and other infrastructure that store and convey water along a 400-mile path from Redding to Bakersfield.
The dam was one of the first units built of the Trinity River Division of the Central Valley Project, a federal water project intended to provide irrigation water to the eponymous Central Valley. Construction started in August 1960 with clearing operations around the dam site, and excavations for the spillway and outlet tunnels began in October.