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Named after California Governor Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown Sr., the over 400-mile (640 km) aqueduct is the principal feature of the California State Water Project. The aqueduct begins at the Clifton Court Forebay at the southwestern corner of the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta.
The map below shows reservoir storage and aqueduct flow data for the California State Water Project. All data used for this map comes from the California Data Exchange Center and should be considered preliminary data and subject to change.
California State Water Project map of facilities located throughout California from Plumas to Riverside Counties. The map includes pumping plants, powerplants, pumping-generating plants, reservoirs, and the California Aqueduct.
Discover the history, purpose, and environmental impact of the California Aqueduct through its map. Learn about key points, maintenance, and solutions.
California Aqueduct, principal water-conveyance structure of the California State Water Project and one of the world’s largest aqueduct systems. It comprises more than 20 pumping stations, five hydroelectric plants, and more than 100 dams and flow-control structures.
Use the map to introduce students to California’s sophisticated water transport system, which consists of canals, dams, reservoirs, pumping plants, and aqueducts. Distinguish between these features and define the purpose of each.
The California Aqueduct, a critical part of the State Water Project, carries water from the S acramento-San Joaquin Delta to the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California. Established as part of a $1.75 billion bond passed by voters in 1960, the 444-mile long California Aqueduct (formally known as the Edmund G. Brown California Aqueduct ...
Our 24×36-inch California Water Map is widely known for being the definitive poster that shows the integral role water plays in the state. On this updated version, it is easier to see California’s natural waterways and man-made reservoirs and aqueducts – including federally, state and locally funded projects – the wild and scenic rivers ...
Katherine Jenkins’s photographs — taken along the California Aqueduct, which carries Sierra Nevada snowmelt southward via a network of dams, reservoirs, channels, and pumping plants, beginning in the San Joaquin-Sacramento Delta and ending in Lake Perris — depict what you might call scenes from the frontlines of the water wars.
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