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As of 2014, alfalfa uses about 18% of California irrigation water and produces 4% of California's farm-gate revenue, most of which is used as livestock feed. [36] In 2015, California exported one-fourth of its total alfalfa production of roughly 2 million tons.
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in California in a sortable table. There are over 1,400 named dams and 1,300 named reservoirs in the state of California . Dams in service
Oroville Dam is an earthfill embankment dam on the Feather River east of the city of Oroville, California, in the Sierra Nevada foothills east of the Sacramento Valley.At 770 feet (235 m) high, it is the tallest dam in the U.S. [8] and serves mainly for water supply, hydroelectricity generation, and flood control.
D.B. Fields/Johnson Dam 1946 Mendocino County: Rice Creek: Big River: McGowan Dam 6 ft (1.8 m) 1998 Butte Creek: Butte Creek: Irrigation dam. Western Canal East Dam 10 ft (3.0 m) 1998 Western Canal Main Dam 10 ft (3.0 m) 1998 McPherrin Dam
The cost of the dam raise is projected at $500 million-$1 billion. One of the expansion's most staunch opponents is the Winnemem Wintu tribe, almost all of whose land was inundated by the construction of Shasta Dam. Raising the dam would destroy much of their little remaining land. [56] [57]
California water officials have estimated that the total costs of drinking water solutions for communities statewide amount to $11.5 billion over the next five years.
Lake Casitas is a reservoir in Ventura County, California, built by the United States Bureau of Reclamation and completed in 1959. [2] The project provides drinking water and water for irrigation. [3] [4] A secondary benefit is flood control. It was the venue for canoeing and rowing at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
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