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Friant Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the San Joaquin River in central California in the United States, on the boundary of Fresno and Madera Counties. It was built between 1937 and 1942 as part of a U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) water project to provide irrigation water to the southern San Joaquin Valley .
Friant (formerly, Converse Ferry, Jones Ferry, Hamptonville, and Pollasky) [7] is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fresno County, California, United States. The population was 549 at the 2010 census, down from 778 at the 2000 census. Friant is located 11.5 miles (19 km) north of Clovis, [7] at an elevation of 344 feet (105 m). [1]
Friant-Kern Canal east of Visalia near Badger and Rocky Hill. The Friant-Kern Canal is a 152 mi (245 km) aqueduct managed by the United States Bureau of Reclamation in Central California to convey water to augment irrigation capacity in Fresno, Tulare, and Kern counties.
A security fence prevents people from walking across Friant Dam near Friant, California, as photographed January 25, 2024. Millerton Lake is seen on the right. Tours ‘stopped’ after 9/11
The northeast Fresno intersection of Friant and Shepherd, AKA “The Friant Roulette” because of the frequent number of crashes as well as close-call collisions, received the second most votes ...
OSI also opened Blue Coral Seafood & Spirits in 2006, and planned 15 locations. They had opened two in California: one at Newport Beach in Orange County, and a second in San Diego, until deciding to close in 2009. [7] On June 14, 2007, OSI Restaurant Partners completed a stock repurchase plan, and the company became privately held.
The Friant-Kern Canal, constructed as part of the Central Valley Project, joins the Kern about 4 mi (6.4 km) west of downtown Bakersfield, restoring some flow to the river. The river channel continues about 20 miles (32 km) southwest to a point near the California Aqueduct on the western side of the San Joaquin Valley.
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