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  2. Delta Conveyance Project - Wikipedia

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    Delta Conveyance Project, formerly known as California Water Fix and Eco Restore or the Bay Delta Conservation Plan, is a $20 billion [1] plan proposed by Governor Jerry Brown and the California Department of Water Resources to build a 36 foot (11 m) diameter tunnel to carry fresh water from the Sacramento River southward under the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to Bethany Reservoir for use by ...

  3. Council for Watershed Health - Wikipedia

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    The Council for Watershed Health (CWH) is a nonprofit environmental organization in the U.S. state of California. It was founded in 1996 by Dorothy Green to preserve, restore, and enhance the Los Angeles and San Gabriel River watersheds.

  4. San Gabriel and Lower Los Angeles Rivers and Mountains ...

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    The San Gabriel and Lower Los Angeles Rivers and Mountains Conservancy (RMC) is an agency of the State of California in the United States with the mission of preserving open space and habitat for low-impact recreation and educational uses, wildlife habitat restoration and protection, and watershed improvements within its jurisdiction. [1]

  5. A ranch, rewilded: The successful transformation of ... - AOL

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    Reasons to be Cheerful reports on floodplain restoration in California's Central Valley as climate change intensifies both flooding and drought.

  6. California has underestimated the epic potential of future ...

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    A dreaded repeat of the flood — which killed at least 4,000 people and turned the Central Valley into a 300-mile-long sea — would probably eclipse the devastation of a major California ...

  7. How powerful land barons shaped the epic floods in California ...

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    The flood-prone Tulare Lake Basin is the one part of the Central Valley that has a special exemption from state-required flood control plans, leaving the area without a clear public strategy for ...

  8. Arroyo Seco (Los Angeles County) - Wikipedia

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    In 1920 (105 years ago) (), the Los Angeles County Flood Control District built the first flood control dam in Los Angeles County at Devil's Gate gorge. [14] Named for a rock outcropping which resembles the face of a devil, this is the narrowest spot on the Arroyo Seco's course below Millard Canyon.

  9. L.A.'s flood-control system survived epic storm. But it's ...

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    Los Angeles County flood control network withstands punishing rains -- for now. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ...