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In 1923, EBMUD was founded due to the rapid population growth and severe drought in the area. The district constructed Pardee Dam (finished in 1929) on the Mokelumne River in the Sierra Nevada, and a large steel pipe Mokelumne Aqueduct to transport the water from Pardee Reservoir across the Central Valley to the San Pablo Reservoir located in the hills of the East Bay region.
The Mokelumne Aqueduct is a 95-mile (153 km) water conveyance system in central California, United States. The aqueduct is supplied by the Mokelumne River and provides water to 35 municipalities in the East Bay in the San Francisco Bay Area. The aqueduct and the associated dams, pipelines, treatment plants and hydroelectric system are owned and ...
Niland Geyser. Niland Geyser (nicknamed the "Slow One" [2] and formally designated W9) [3] is a moving mud pot or mud spring outside Niland, California in the Salton Trough in an area of geological instability due to the San Andreas Fault, [4] formed due to carbon dioxide being released underground. It is the only mud pot or mud volcano known ...
Wikimedia Commons has media related to East Bay Municipal Utility District. The East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) — a water supply and wastewater treatment utility district in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, California. It serves Alameda County and Contra Costa County, with headquarters in Oakland.
A fresh water supply district is a body which manages fresh water supply in a defined area in the United States. It may have the power of eminent domain. [1] The term fresh water supply district is mostly used in Texas, while water district is used in much of the rest of the United States. [2] [3] Fresh water supply districts were first ...
Malheur Lake is a remnant of a much larger Pleistocene lake that drained east to the Malheur River, a tributary of the Snake River. [1] [4] The size of this ancient lake, which existed during a wetter climate, has been estimated at 900 square miles (2,300 km 2), with a maximum depth of 35 feet (11 m).
The Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) is a community-owned electric utility serving Sacramento County and parts of Placer County. [3] It is one of the ten largest publicly owned utilities in the United States, generating the bulk of its power through natural gas (estimated 35.2% of production total in 2020) and large hydroelectric generation plants (29.1% in 2020).
Gully. A gully in Kharkiv oblast, Ukraine. Gullied landscape in Somalia. A gully is a landform created by running water, mass movement, or commonly a combination of both eroding sharply into soil or other relatively erodible material, typically on a hillside or in river floodplains or terraces. [1]