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Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in California in a sortable table. There are over 1,400 named dams and 1,300 named reservoirs in the state of California . Dams in service
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The Mulholland Dam is a Los Angeles Department of Water and Power dam located in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, California, east of the Hollywood Freeway.Designed with a storage capacity of 7,900 acre⋅ft (9,700,000 m 3) of water at a maximum depth of 183 feet (56 m), the dam forms the Hollywood Reservoir, which collects water from various aqueducts and impounds the creek of Weid Canyon.
Calero Dam (Santa Clara County, California) Calero Reservoir; Camanche Dam; Camp Far West Dam; Canyon Dam (California) Cape Horn Dam; Carbon Canyon Dam; Casitas Dam; Cedar Lake (California) Cherry Valley Dam; Clear Lake Dam; Clear Lake Reservoir; Combie Dam; Copco No 1 Dam; Courtright Dam; Coyote Dam (Santa Clara County, California) Coyote ...
The dam site has an active earthquake fault nearby, and the original 1925 dam was seismically vulnerable. If the dam had collapsed when full, it would have flooded parts of Fremont, California with a wall of water 30 ft (9.1 m) high. Dam regulators for the state of California restricted the capacity of the original dam in 2001, to mitigate the ...
In California alone, thousands of dams provide a long list of human-centered services. From flood control to hydroelectricity to water for drinking and irrigation, dams contribute to the way of ...
The reservoir has a capacity of 197,756 acre⋅ft (243,928,000 m 3) and is formed by Twitchell Dam on the Cuyama River about 66 miles (106 km) from its headwaters in the Chumash Wilderness Area. About 7 miles (11 km) below the dam, outflow joins the Sisquoc River near Garey, CA to form the Santa Maria River .
Casitas Dam is an earthfill dam across Coyote Creek that forms Lake Casitas in Ventura County, California near Oak View, California. The dam is located two miles (3 km) above the junction of Coyote Creek and the Ventura River. Water from the Ventura River is diverted to Lake Casitas as well.