Sacramento/SJ Delta
It is the hub of California’s two largest surface water delivery projects.
What is the federal Central Valley Project and the State Water Project?
The length of the Delta-Mendota Canal.
What is 117 miles?
A collection of canals, pipelines, reservoirs, and hydroelectric power facilities delivers clean water to this many Californians.
What is 27 million Californians?
The California State Water Project (SWP) supplies water to this many acres of farmland.
What is 750,000?
The State Water Project's largest reservoir.
What is Lake Oroville?
The Delta provides a portion of the drinking water for this many Californians.
What is 30 million?
Year the Delta-Mendota Canal was completed.
What is 1951?
The California State Water Project (SWP) is a multi-purpose water storage and delivery system that extends this many miles.
What is more than 705 miles?
Located entirely in the Plumas National Forest on Upper Indian Creek, a tributary of the Feather River’s North Fork.
What is the Antelope Dam?
As water leaves this region, it flows down Feather River and Sacramento River channels to this delta.
What is the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta?
The delta spans this many acres of land.
What is 738,000 acres?
The canal begins here.
What is the C.W. Bill Jones Pumping Plant?
For the last 20 years, what percentage of the California State Water Project’s average water have been for agricultural and residential use?
What is 34 percent for agricultural and 66 percent for residential, municipal, and industrial use?
Located about 45 miles northwest of Los Angeles and about two miles north of the community of Castaic.
What is Castaic Dam?
Located about four miles west of the city of Oroville in Butte County, this pumping plant is a principal feature of the Oroville-Thermalito pumped-storage power complex.
What is Thermalto Pumping-Generating Plant?
The ancestors of the Miwok, Nisenan, Ohlone, Patwin, Pomo, Wappo, Nomlaki, Wintu, Konkow and Yokuts people have called the Delta region home for this many years.
What is 10,000?
Primary crops in the Delta-Mendota service area.
What are melons, grapes, vegetables and deciduous nuts?
Manages the SWP.
What is the DWR (Dept of Water and Resources)?
Situated in Fresno County 20 miles southwest of the city of Los Banos.
What is Little Panoche Dam?
Located in the rock in the left abutment near the axis of Oroville Dam,this powerplant is an underground, hydroelectric, pumping-generating facility. Construction of the plant began in 1964 and was completed in 1967.
What is the Edward Hyatt Powerplant?
More than 13,000 people live in the heart of the Delta, in roughly a dozen “legacy” communities. Name one of them.
What is Locke, Walnut Grove, Freeport, Clarksburg, Hood, Isleton, Rio Vista, Bethel Island, Courtland and Knightsen?
An intertie connecting the Delta-Mendota Canal and the State Water Project’s California Aqueduct was completed in this year.
What is 2012?
The State Water Project would be the ranked this top economy in the world between France and Italy if the State Water Project were its own nation.
What is 8th?
Tallest earth-fill dam in the United States and forms Oroville Lake with a capacity of 3.4 million acre-feet (California's second largest reservoir).
What is Oroville Dam?
Built to compensate for spawning ground lost to returning salmon and steelhead trout with the construction of Oroville Dam. The first salmon and steelhead entered the hatchery in September 1967.
What is Feather River Fish Hatchery?