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Olmos Dam is a detention dam located on the San Antonio River in San Antonio, Texas. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was built in the 1920s, following the disastrous September 1921 San Antonio floods . [ 3 ] Work began on the dam on January 19, 1925, [ 4 ] and it was completed in 1926; [ 2 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] in 1929 a cut-off channel , to allow excess water to ...
It is operated by the California Department of Water Resources and provides a major water source for agencies serving nearby San Bernardino Mountain and Mojave Desert areas. Some 2,400 acres (9.7 km 2) of recreation land surround the lake. [3] At an elevation of 3,355 ft (1,023 m), Silverwood Lake is the highest reservoir in the State Water ...
The Spanish Royal Army of Texas, under Governor Manuel María de Salcedo and Nuevo León Governor Simón de Herrera, had retreated to San Antonio. In March 1813, the Spanish army, numbering 950 to 1,500, had planned an ambush on the republicans as they marched and searched for food along the creek banks.
The Mojave River is an intermittent river in the eastern San Bernardino Mountains and the Mojave Desert in San Bernardino County, California, United States. Most of its flow is underground, while its surface channels remain dry most of the time, except for the headwaters and several bedrock gorges in the lower reaches.
Soda Lake (or Soda Dry Lake) is a dry lake at the terminus of the Mojave River [1] in the Mojave Desert of San Bernardino County, California. The lake has standing water during wet periods, and water can be found beneath the surface. Soda Lake along with Silver Lake are what remains of the large, perennial, Holocene Lake Mojave.
Located in South Central Texas, the Edwards Aquifer encompasses an area of approximately 4,350 square miles (11,300 km 2) that extends into parts of 11 counties. [3] The aquifer's boundaries begin at the groundwater divide in Kinney County, East of Brackettville, and extend Eastward through the San Antonio area and then Northeast where the aquifer boundary ends at the Leon River in Bell County ...
It formerly was the Mojave River's terminal lake, [5] and received about 1 millimetre per year (0.039 in/year) of sediment. [45] The Coyote Basin was not permanently coupled to the main lake body; its relatively large surface area and consequently high evaporation would have stabilized lake levels when it was connected to Lake Manix proper. [46]
The Mojave Forks Dam, most often known as the Mojave River Dam, is an earth-fill dry dam across the Mojave River in San Bernardino County, California in the United States. Completed in 1974 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), the dam is located at the confluence of the West Fork Mojave River and Deep Creek , and can store approximately ...