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Frenchman Lake (California) / 39.89389°N 120.19000°W / 39.89389; -120.19000. Frenchman Lake is a reservoir located in southeastern Plumas County, California. It was created by the damming of Little Last Chance Creek in 1961, as part of the California State Water Project. It was named after its tributary Frenchman Creek, which in turn ...
MWDOC. Formation. 1951. Headquarters. 18700 Ward Street, Fountain Valley California. Website. www.mwdoc.com. The Municipal Water District of Orange County, commonly known by the acronym MWDOC, is a wholesale water provider, water resource development and planning agency., [1] water-centric information, education, emergency planning, and ...
Coordinates: 37.82549°N 121.59593°W. The John E. Skinner Delta Fish Protective Facility or the Skinner Fish Facility is a fish collection and diversion facility located 2 miles upstream from the Banks Pumping Plant. In operation since 1968 by the California Department of Water Resources, the facility utilizes behavioral devices ( fish screens ...
Trinity Dam. / 40.80111°N 122.76333°W / 40.80111; -122.76333. Trinity Dam is an earthfill dam on the Trinity River located about 7 miles (11 km) northeast of Weaverville, California in the United States. The dam was completed in the early 1960s as part of the federal Central Valley Project to provide irrigation water to the arid San ...
1973. Opened. 1993. Location. The Central Arizona Project (CAP) is a 336 mi (541 km) diversion canal in Arizona in the southern United States . The aqueduct diverts water from the Colorado River at the Bill Williams Wildlife Refuge south portion of Lake Havasu near Parker into central and southern Arizona. CAP is managed and operated by the ...
State recreation area Riverside: 6,675 2,701 1974 Contains the southernmost reservoir in the 701-mile (1,128 km) California State Water Project and the Ya'i Heki' Regional Indian Museum. Lake Valley State Recreation Area: State recreation area El Dorado: 155 63 1985 Offers an 18-hole golf course in the High Sierras.
The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) is part of the California Natural Resources Agency and is responsible for the management and regulation of the State of California 's water usage. [1] The department was created in 1956 by Governor Goodwin Knight following severe flooding across Northern California in 1955, where they combined ...
The Kern River, previously Río de San Felipe, later La Porciúncula, is an Endangered, Wild and Scenic river in the U.S. state of California, approximately 165 miles (270 km) long. It drains an area of the southern Sierra Nevada mountains northeast of Bakersfield. Fed by snowmelt near Mount Whitney, the river passes through scenic canyons in ...