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Reservoir Dam River County Owner Completed Type Height of dam [a] Reservoir capacity (ft) (m) (acre ft) (1,000 m 3) Almaden Reservoir: Almaden Dam: Alamitos Creek: Santa Clara: Santa Clara Valley Water District: 1935: Earth: 108 33: 1,586: 1,956 Alpine Lake: Alpine Dam: Lagunitas Creek: Marin: Marin Municipal Water District: 1917: Gravity: 143 ...
Eleven reservoirs have a storage capacity greater than or equal to 1,000,000 acre-feet (1.2 km 3); all of these except one are in or on drainages that feed into the Central Valley. The largest single reservoir in California is Shasta Lake, with a full volume of more than 4,552,000 acre-feet (5.615 km 3).
The dam and reservoir are co-owned by the Oakdale Irrigation District and South San Joaquin Irrigation District, and the dam is one of three in the Tri-Dam Project. [6] The other two dams in the project are Beardsley Dam and Tulloch Dam. The dam has a length of 750 feet (230 m) at its crest and a storage capacity of 56,893 acre-feet (70,176,000 ...
Under a long-standing agreement, Stanislaus County has operated the 6,700-acre regional park for the public at Woodward Reservoir. Stanislaus, water district lack accord on future of recreation at ...
Lake Tahoe is the second deepest lake in the U.S. In terms of area covered, the largest lake in California is the Salton Sea, a lake formed in 1905 which is now saline.It occupies 376 square miles (970 km 2) in the southeast corner of the state, but because it is shallow it only holds about 7.5 million acre⋅ft (2.4 trillion US gal; 9.3 trillion L) of water. [2]
The earthen dam was completed in 1957 (68 years ago) () with a height of 284 feet (87 m), and a length of 1,000 feet (300 m) at its crest. [1] It impounds the Middle Fork of the Stanislaus River for hydroelectric power and irrigation water storage, part of the Stanislaus River Tri-Dam project cooperatively owned by the Oakdale Irrigation District and South San Joaquin Irrigation District.
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The irrigation districts desperately needed water storage for the dry season, and a number of small off-stream reservoirs were built, including Woodward Reservoir in 1916, though their benefit was limited at best. [81] In 1925 the districts issued $2.2 million of bonds to build a storage dam on the Stanislaus River. [83]