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The combined 154,400-acre-foot (190,400 dam 3) capacity of Huntington and Florence Lakes was much smaller than the annual 1,700,000-acre-foot (2,100,000 dam 3) runoff of the upper San Joaquin River system. As a result, a dam was built on Stevenson Creek between 1925 and 1927, forming Shaver Lake, to store excess water from Huntington. The lake ...
[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 rock, the dam was an 800-foot (240 m) long, 6-foot (1.8 m) tall structure designed to divert water for the irrigation of 250,000 acres (100,000 ha).
Kerckhoff Dam is a concrete arch dam on the San Joaquin River in Fresno County, California, about 10 mi (16 km) southwest of Big Creek.The 114 ft (35 m) tall dam is a run-of-the-river facility impounding 4,252 acre⋅ft (5,245,000 m 3) of water and is the primary feature of Pacific Gas and Electric's Kerckhoff hydroelectric project. [3]
The federal government and some 10 water districts are ponying up $1.1 billion to expand California’s largest reservoir south of the Delta. Their plan is to raise the dam at San Luis Reservoir ...
Temperance Flat Dam is a proposed dam project on the San Joaquin River west of Auberry, California. Construction of the dam is on hold. Construction of the dam is on hold. The dam's main purpose would be to supplement storage capacity in the upper San Joaquin River basin.
Friant Dam crosses the San Joaquin River upstream of Mendota Pool, diverting its water southwards into canals that travel into the Tulare Lake area of the San Joaquin Valley, as far south as the Kern River. Finally, New Melones Lake, a separate facility, stores water flow of a San Joaquin River tributary for use during dry periods. Other ...
An expanded San Luis Reservoir will provide an additional 130,000 acre-feet of supplies — enough water to serve approximately 260,000 homes for a year, to irrigate enough land to feed ...
The dam rises for 330 ft (100 m) above the bed of the San Joaquin River, and contains about 5,250,000 cu yd (4,010,000 m 3) of material. The crest is situated at an elevation of 3,361 ft (1,024 m) and is approximately 30 ft (9.1 m) wide. The dam's base, by contrast, is more than 2,100 ft (640 m) thick. [8]