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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]
The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California reservoirs store fresh water for use in Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Diego counties. These reservoirs were built specifically to preserve water during times of drought, and are in place for emergencies uses such as earthquake, floods or other events.
As a worsening drought forces millions of Californians to face mandatory water restrictions, one corner of Southern California has largely shielded itself from supply-related woes: San Diego County.
Some chartered municipalities such as the city of San Diego and the city of Chula Vista provide their own law enforcement, public safety, libraries, parks and recreation, zoning, and similar services. Other incorporated cities have some or all of these services provided by the County under a contract arrangement.
“The amount of water that we saw yesterday would have overwhelmed any city drainage system," he said. ... was probably an underestimate," said San Diego City Council President Sean Elo-Rivera ...
The city of San Diego purchased the dam from Mountain Water Company in 1914. Since then, it has been raised several times to increase its capacity – 5 feet (1.5 m) in 1917, 10 feet (3.0 m) in 1923, 4 feet (1.2 m) in 1930 and 2 feet (0.61 m) in 1946.
El Capitan Dam is an embankment dam or hydraulic fill dam on the San Diego River in San Diego County, California. The dam forms the 112,800-acre-foot (139,100,000 m 3) El Capitan Reservoir and serves mainly to supply water to the city of San Diego as well as providing flood control. The dam is connected to the San Diego municipal water system ...
The San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) is the metropolitan planning organization (MPO) for San Diego County, California.It is an association of local county governments, with policy makers consisting of mayors, councilmembers, and county supervisors, and also has capital planning and fare setting powers for the county's transit systems, the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS ...