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The Folsom South Canal is an aqueduct in Northern California in the United States.The canal diverts water from the American River at Nimbus Dam in Sacramento County and travels about 26.7 miles (43.0 km) in a southerly direction, terminating near Clay, about 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Lodi.
The Colorado River Storage Project is a United States Bureau of Reclamation project designed to oversee the development of the upper basin of the Colorado River. The project provides hydroelectric power, flood control and water storage for participating states along the upper portion of the Colorado River and its major tributaries. [1]
The original contracted water supply from New Melones Dam was 1,067,000 acre-feet (1.316 km 3), of which 600,000 acre-feet (0.74 km 3) was allocated to the Oakdale and South San Joaquin Irrigation Districts (who owned the original Melones Dam and have the oldest water rights); 422,000 acre-feet (0.521 km 3) for Stanislaus River water quality ...
The survival of the Delta smelt has been one of the largest environmental controversies in California, as environmental measures enacted to protect its population have often reduced the amount of water available for federal water projects that depend on water pumped from the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta.
Under the Federal Clean Water Act and the state's pioneering Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act the State Water Board has regulatory authority for protecting the water quality of nearly 1,600,000 acres (6,500 km 2) of lakes, 1,300,000 acres (5,300 km 2) of bays and estuaries, 211,000 miles (340,000 km) of rivers and streams, and about ...
Rancho California Water District: 1949: Variable radius arch: 152: 46: 50,000: ... List of United States Bureau of Reclamation dams; Water in California; Notes and ...
East Park Dam is an agricultural irrigation dam and reservoir built by the United States Bureau of Reclamation, on Little Stony Creek, about 30 miles (48 km) southwest of Orland, California on the northern end of the California Central Valley. The dam was completed in 1910 (114 years ago) (). Its main structure is a curved, thick-arch concrete ...
Stickney Water Reclamation Plant [6] Chicago USA: 1930 2 665 000 [7] 5 450 000 [8] 1.67 Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant [9] Washington D.C. USA: 1937 1 450 000 4 073 000 0.62 Secondary treatment since 1959. Enhanced nutrient removal in 2014. Deer Island Waste Water Treatment Plant: Boston USA: 1968 1 438 000 4 542 000 0.6 [10]