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The Bureau of Reclamation, formerly the United States Reclamation Service, is a federal agency under the U.S. Department of the Interior, which oversees water resource management, specifically as it applies to the oversight and operation of the diversion, delivery, and storage projects that it has built throughout the western United States for irrigation, water supply, and attendant ...
Installed capacity. 200–750 MW. Auburn Dam was a proposed concrete arch dam on the North Fork of the American River east of the town of Auburn, California, in the United States, on the border of Placer and El Dorado Counties. Slated to be completed in the 1970s by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, it would have been the tallest concrete dam in ...
7,000,000 acre-feet (8,600,000 dam 3) Land irrigated. 3,000,000 acres (1,200,000 ha) Total generation capacity. 2,254 MW. Total annual generation. 5.18 TWh (2004) The Central Valley Project ( CVP) is a federal power and water management project in the U.S. state of California under the supervision of the United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR).
To accomplish that, the Bureau of Reclamation and San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority are teaming on a second 10-foot dam raise that would create an additional 130,000 acre feet of storage ...
Klamath Project. Coordinates: 42.1°N 121.6°W. The Klamath Project is a water-management project developed by the United States Bureau of Reclamation to supply farmers with irrigation water and farmland in the Klamath Basin. The project also supplies water to the Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge, and the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge.
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 ...
The Friant-Kern Canal is a 152 mi (245 km) aqueduct managed by the United States Bureau of Reclamation in Central California to convey water to augment irrigation capacity in Fresno, Tulare, and Kern counties. A part of the Central Valley Project, canal construction began in 1949 and was completed in 1951 at a cost of $60.8 million.
Nimbus Dam; Country: United States: Location: Sacramento County, California: Coordinates,inline: Status: Operational: Construction began: 1952; 72 years ago (): Opening date: 1955; 69 years ago (): Owner(s): Bureau of Reclamation: Dam and spillways; Impounds: American River: Height: 87 ft (27 m): Length: 1,093 ft (333 m): Elevation at crest: 132 ft (40 m): Width (crest): 28 ft (8.5 m): Width ...