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Coordinates: 39.2228°N 121.0726°W. 1922 Nevada Irrigation District Project Map. Nevada Irrigation District (NID) is an agency in Northern California that supplies water for much of Nevada County and portions of Placer and Yuba Counties. The water is used for irrigation, municipal and domestic purposes. It was established in 1921.
In the United States an irrigation district is a cooperative, self-governing public corporation set up as a subdivision of the State government, with definite geographic boundaries, organized, and having taxing power to obtain and distribute water for irrigation of lands within the district; created under the authority of a State legislature with the consent of a designated fraction of the ...
Passed the House on June 13, 1902 ( 146-55) Signed into law by President Theodore Roosevelt on June 17, 1902. The Reclamation Act (also known as the Lowlands Reclamation Act or National Reclamation Act) of 1902 ( Pub. L. 57–161) is a United States federal law that funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 17 states in the American West.
A federal appeals court recently breathed new life into litigation that has entangled the U.S. government and the high-desert town of Fernley ever since a 118-year-old canal burst and flooded ...
Nevada's 4th congressional district is a congressional district that was created as a result of the 2010 United States census. [3] Located in the central portion of the state, it includes most of northern Clark County, southern Lyon County, most of Lincoln County, a sliver of Churchill County and all of Esmeralda, Mineral, and Nye counties.
The Yuba–Bear Hydroelectric Project is a complex hydroelectric scheme in the northern Sierra Nevada in California, tapping the upper Yuba River and Bear River drainage basins. The project area encompasses approximately 400 square miles (1,000 km 2) in Nevada, Placer, and Sierra Counties. Owned by the Nevada Irrigation District, it consists of ...
The Yuba River is a tributary of the Feather River in the Sierra Nevada and eastern Sacramento Valley, in the U.S. state of California. The main stem of the river is about 40 miles (64 km) long, [2] and its headwaters are split into three major forks. The Yuba River proper is formed at the North Yuba and Middle Yuba rivers' confluence, with the ...
Rollins Dam (National ID # CA00255) is a dam on the border of Nevada and Placer counties in northern California, in the United States. The earthen dam was constructed in 1965 by the Nevada Irrigation District, with a height of 228 feet (69 m), and a length of 1,840 feet (560 m) at its crest. [1] [2] It impounds the Bear River, a tributary of ...