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When full, the reservoir covers 1,234 acres (4.99 km 2), has a maximum water depth of 115 feet (35 m), and a shoreline of 27 miles (43 km). [1] Lake Hodges is owned by the City of San Diego and supplies water to the San Dieguito Water District and Santa Fe Irrigation District. Lake Hodges has a total capacity of 30,251 acre-feet of water. [2]
Texas conducted 22,083 water quality tests between 2004 and 2007 on Houston's water supply, and found 18 chemicals that exceeded federal and state health guidelines, compared to the national ...
The National Water Quality Inventory Report to Congress is a general report on water quality, providing overall information about the number of miles of streams and rivers and their aggregate condition. [65] The CWA requires states to adopt standards for each of the possible designated uses that they assign to their waters.
The Safe Drinking Water Act requires the US EPA to set standards for drinking water quality in public water systems (entities that provide water for human consumption to at least 25 people for at least 60 days a year). [3] Enforcement of the standards is mostly carried out by state health agencies. [4]
According to a 1993 report by the city of San Diego, the city had collected an average of 13 million gallons (50 million liters) per day of raw sewage, that then was treated by the Point Loma wastewater treatment plant; [25] this is down from 20 million gallons per day in 1997 being treated by the city of San Diego, which it had received from ...
Sherman Heights is a diverse neighborhood and home to one of the highest concentrations of Latinos in the city. Current demographics for the neighborhood are as follows: people of Hispanic/Latino heritage make up 75.6%, followed by non-Hispanic Whites at 16.4%, African-Americans at 4.1%, Asian at 1.8%, Mixed Race at 1.8% and others at 0.3% [4]
Barrett Dam is located in a narrow canyon just below the confluence of Cottonwood Creek and Pine Valley Creek, about 35 miles (56 km) east of downtown San Diego. [3] The dam is 171 feet (52 m) high above the riverbed and 746 feet (227 m) long, forming a reservoir with 34,206 acre-feet (42,192,000 m 3 ) of usable capacity. [ 1 ]
The San Diego County Water Authority (SDCWA) is a wholesale supplier of water to the roughly western third of San Diego County, California. The Water Authority was formed in 1944 by the California State Legislature. SDCWA serves 22 member agencies with 34 Board of Director members. [1]