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The Chowchilla River begins in name at the point where the West and East forks converge and flows southwest to Eastman Lake. The lake, which holds 150,000 acre⋅ft (190,000 dam 3 ) of water from the Chowchilla, was created in 1975 by the construction of Buchanan Dam , an earth and rockfill structure which is 205 by 1,800 ft (62 by 549 m).
Chowilla Dam was a proposed water storage reservoir on the Murray River in the 1960s. The dam wall would have been in South Australia, but the reservoir behind it would have stretched upstream into Victoria and New South Wales. The site was selected in 1960. Early preparations for its construction were conducted before the project was halted.
The lake formed in 1975 (50 years ago) () from the construction of Buchanan Dam across the Chowchilla River as a flood control and irrigation project of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. The earthen dam, 218 feet (66 m) high with a length of 1,746 feet (532 m) at the crest, impounding a maximum capacity of 150,000 acre-feet of ...
The canal runs north along the eastern edge of the San Joaquin Valley, ending at the Chowchilla River east of Chowchilla. Average annual throughput is 256,100 acre-feet (315,900,000 m 3 ). The Madera Canal has a capacity of 1,000 cubic feet per second (28 m 3 /s), gradually decreasing to 625 cu ft/s (17.7 m 3 /s) at the terminus.
Chauchela (Chowchilla) - Chowchilla River from the San Joaquin River to the Sierra Nevada foothills. Heuche - Fresno River, from its junction with the San Joaquin River to the foothills. Hoyumne - San Joaquin River from Herndon to Cottonwood Creek (Friant Dam). Shares name with Yokuts tribe south of Tracy.
Chowchilla is a city in Madera County, California, United States. [3] The city's population was 19,039 at the 2020 census . [ 4 ] Chowchilla is located 16 miles (26 km) northwest of Madera , [ 5 ] at an elevation of 240 feet (73 m).
Chowchilla may refer to: Chowchilla, a bird (Orthonyx spaldingii) Chowchilla, California, a city in Madera County, California, USA Chowchilla Airport; the 1976 Chowchilla kidnapping of a school bus driver and 26 children in Chowchilla, California; Chowchilla River, a river in Central California and a minor tributary of the San Joaquin River
The site is just east of the city limits of Madera, California, [3] about 20 miles northwest of the planned Fresno high-speed rail station and about 10 miles southeast of the planned Chowchilla Wye. [4] Because the site is downstream from the John Franchi Diversion Dam, the riverbed is normally dry unless heavy rains cause the dam to overtop.