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In 1960, Metropolitan, along with 30 other public agencies, signed a long-term contract that made possible the construction of the State Water Project, including reservoirs, pumping plants and the 444-mile California Aqueduct (715 km), which serves urban and agricultural agencies from the San Francisco Bay to Southern California.
Cima volcanic field is a volcanic field in San Bernardino County, California, close to the border with Nevada. [3] [4] The volcanic field covers a surface area of 600 km 2 (230 sq mi) within the Mojave National Preserve west of the Cima Dome and consists of about 40 volcanic cones with about 60 lava flows. The volcanic cones range from simple ...
Lake Mojave in relation to other Pleistocene-era lakes in the region. The Mojave River is the principal river reaching the Lake Mojave basin, [3] and the principal river of the Mojave Desert. [5] Presently, a number of springs on the western side of the Lake Mojave basin form small waterbodies. [5]
Danby Lake (also known as Danby Dry Lake) is a dry lake bed in the Mojave Desert of San Bernardino County, California, 50 mi (80 km) northwest of Blythe. The lake is approximately 9 mi (14 km) long and 2.5 mi (4.0 km) at its widest point.
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 ...
The Calico Early Man Site is an archaeological site in an ancient Pleistocene lake located near Barstow in San Bernardino County in the central Mojave Desert of Southern California. This site is on and in late middle- Pleistocene fanglomerates (now-cemented alluvial debris flow deposits) known variously as the Calico Hills, the Yermo Hills, or ...
Cadiz Inc. has been trying to get a water project approved despite doubts about its financing, its water rights and its influence-peddling. Under new management, it now says it's all about serving ...
Saline Valley is a closed or endorheic basin. If filled with water it would be over 4,000 feet (1,200 m) deep, form a lake with a surface area of roughly 500 square miles (1,300 km 2 ), and hold approximately 500,000,000 acre⋅ft (620 km 3 ) of water.