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1907 - City of San Francisco votes to construct a water and power supply known as Hetch Hetchy that is located Yosemite [29] 1911 - Constitutional Act - California Railroad Commission takes over regulatory role of cities for electric rates [30] 1913 - Water Commission Act attempts to sort out the state's water rights
Basin description Basin location [4] Basin size [4] Basin map 180901 Mono–Owens Lakes basin: Mono Lake and Owens Lake closed basins [5] 4,310 sq mi (11,200 km 2) HUC180901: 180902 Northern Mojave basin: Closed desert basins that discharge into south-central California, including Death Valley and the Upper Mojave Desert, excluding Mono Lake ...
Map of Texas City. Texas City is 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Galveston and 37 miles (60 km) southeast of Houston. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 186.58 square miles (483.24 km 2), of which 66.27 square miles (171.64 km 2) is land and 120.31 square miles (311.60 km 2), or 67.61%, is covered by water. [1]
The Texas–Gulf water resource region is one of 21 major geographic areas, or regions, in the first level of classification used by the United States Geological Survey to divide and sub-divide the United States into successively smaller hydrologic units. These geographic areas contain either the drainage area of a major river, or the combined ...
Lake Mojave in relation to other Pleistocene-era lakes in the region. The Mojave River is the principal river reaching the Lake Mojave basin, [3] and the principal river of the Mojave Desert. [5] Presently, a number of springs on the western side of the Lake Mojave basin form small waterbodies. [5]
New Mexico has reached a record settlement with a Texas-based company over air pollution violations at natural gas gathering sites in the Permian Basin. The $24.5 million agreement with Ameredev ...
Apr. 29—A Texas oil company has agreed to pay $24.5 million in a settlement with state regulators for excessive flaring that emitted massive pollutants posing threats to the environment and ...
The Permian Basin covers more than 86,000 square miles (220,000 km 2), [1] and extends across an area approximately 250 miles (400 km) wide and 300 miles (480 km) long. [2] The Texas cities of Midland, Odessa and San Angelo serve as headquarters for some of the oil production activities in the basin.