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  2. Nevada Irrigation District - Wikipedia

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    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. The Nevada Irrigation District owns and operates a system of ten reservoirs, many part of the ...

  3. Irrigation districts in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Rollins Dam - Wikipedia

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    Rollins Dam was built by Nevada Irrigation District as part of the Yuba-Bear hydroelectric Project in the 1960s. This project was created to bring flood control, water storage industrial/domestic, hydroelectricity, and recreation to the people in Nevada county. [5] The construction for the dam began in July 1963 and finished in December 1965.

  5. Nevada fight over leaky irrigation canal and groundwater more ...

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    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 ...

  6. Centennial Dam - Wikipedia

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    Centennial Dam is a proposed dam on the border of Placer County and Nevada County in Northern California near Colfax.The contingent reservoir would be created by a 275-foot (84 m) dam along the Bear River between two existing reservoirs — Lake Combie and Rollins Reservoir — and would hold 110,000 acre-feet (140,000,000 m 3).

  7. List of United States electric companies - Wikipedia

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    Homeworks Tri-County Electric Cooperative. Lansing Board of Water & Light. Lowell Light and Power. Midwest Energy & Communications (Cooperative) Ontonagon County REA (Cooperative) Presque Isle Electric & Gas Cooperative. Thumb Electric Cooperative. Upper Peninsula Power Company. We Energies.

  8. Truckee–Carson Irrigation District - Wikipedia

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    or "4,5,6,7-Tetrachloro-1H-indene-1,3 (2H)-dione". The Truckee–Carson Irrigation District (TCID) is a public enterprise organized in the State of Nevada, which operates dams at Lake Tahoe, diversion dams on the Truckee River in Washoe County, and the Lake Lahontan reservoir. TCD also operates 380 miles (610 km) of canals, and 340 miles (550 ...

  9. List of dams and reservoirs in Nevada - Wikipedia

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    Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Nevada. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3 ), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3 ).