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2. California Reclamation Districts - Wikipedia

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   California Reclamation Districts are legal subdivisions within California's Central Valley that are responsible for managing and maintaining the levees, fresh water channels, or sloughs (pronounced slü), [1] canals, pumps, and other flood protection structures in the area. Each is run autonomously and is run by an elected board and funded with ...

3. Dominguez Channel - Wikipedia

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   Dominguez Channel (Spanish: Canal de Domínguez) [1] is a 15.7-mile-long (25.3 km) [2] stream in southern Los Angeles County, California, in the center of the Dominguez Watershed of 133 square miles (340 km 2).

4. Retention basin - Wikipedia

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   Storm water is typically channeled to a retention basin through a system of street and/or parking lot storm drains, and a network of drain channels or underground pipes.. The basins are designed to allow relatively large flows of water to enter, but discharges to receiving waters are limited by outlet structures that function only during very large storm eve

5. California sees extensive storm damage as weather calms - AOL

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   Key roadways remained closed and officials estimated thousand of homes were seriously damaged in the state as weeks of wild weather that flooded roadways, collapsed hillsides and toppled countless ...

6. California water resource region - Wikipedia

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   These geographic areas contain either the drainage area of a major river, or the combined drainage areas of a series of rivers. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The California region, which is listed with a 2-digit hydrologic unit code (HUC) of 18, has an approximate size of 168,579 square miles (436,620 square kilometers ), and consists of 10 subregions, which are ...

7. 'Extremely dangerous situation': Hollywood Hills hit by major ...

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   Whipped by powerful winds, trees fell on homes across Northern California, and one crushed a car on Highway 101 near Santa Rosa, injuring a motorist. Peak gusts even exceeded 100 mph at Pablo ...