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When full, the reservoir covers 1,234 acres (4.99 km 2), has a maximum water depth of 115 feet (35 m), and a shoreline of 27 miles (43 km). [1] Lake Hodges is owned by the City of San Diego and supplies water to the San Dieguito Water District and Santa Fe Irrigation District. Lake Hodges has a total capacity of 30,251 acre-feet of water. [2]
Barrett Dam is located in a narrow canyon just below the confluence of Cottonwood Creek and Pine Valley Creek, about 35 miles (56 km) east of downtown San Diego. [3] The dam is 171 feet (52 m) high above the riverbed and 746 feet (227 m) long, forming a reservoir with 34,206 acre-feet (42,192,000 m 3 ) of usable capacity. [ 1 ]
In 2009, construction began of a $568 million project to increase the size of San Vicente Reservoir twofold. San Diego County Water Authority officials are hoping to receive funding from Proposition 18 (the $11.1 billion bond to upgrade the Californian water supply), but will continue the upgrade without these funds if the Proposition is ...
El Capitan Dam is an embankment dam or hydraulic fill dam on the San Diego River in San Diego County, California. The dam forms the 112,800-acre-foot (139,100,000 m 3) El Capitan Reservoir and serves mainly to supply water to the city of San Diego as well as providing flood control. The dam is connected to the San Diego municipal water system ...
The Laguna–San Diego Coastal water resource basin is a third-level subdivision of the United States hydrologic unit system. [1] The tiers of the classification system, in order from largest to smallest, are regions , subregions, basins (formerly accounting units), subbasins (formerly cataloging units), watersheds, and subwatersheds.
The historic district includes the North Park Water Tower, located at the intersection of Idaho Street and Howard Avenue in central San Diego. The water tower was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013 and was designated as a Local Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in 2015. [1] [2]
It was built to supply drinking water to the city of San Diego. [1] It was originally piped down to San Diego in wooden flumes. It continues to be part of a municipal water supply system for the Helix Water District. [1] In the mid-1960s, the Lake Cuyamaca Recreation and Park District was formed.
San Vicente Dam is a concrete gravity dam on San Vicente Creek near Lakeside and 25 km (15.5 mi) northeast of San Diego, California.The dam was built between 1941 and 1943 and created San Vicente Reservoir for the purpose of municipal water storage, flood control and recreation.