Timeline
Conservationist John Muir founds Sierra Club.
What is 1892?
The discovery of this at Sutter’s Mill in 1848, lured thousands of immigrants.
What is gold?
Established as part of a $1.75 billion bond passed by voters in 1960, the 444-mile-long California Aqueduct beginas at this pumping plant.
What is the Harvey O. Banks Pumping Plant?
This type of power typically generates about 15 percent of the annual electricity in California.
What is hydropower?
California’s largest river, the Sacramento, provides this percent of the state's surface water runoff.
What 30 percent?
Los Angeles Aqueduct begins service.
What is 1913?
He proposed transporting water from the Sacramento River system to the San Joaquin Valley then moving it over the Tehachapi Mountains into Southern California. His proposal led to the first plan for a state-operated water project.
Who is Robert B. Marshall?
To cross the Tehachapis into Southern California, a huge amount of water is raised some this many feet at the A. D. Edmonston Pumping Plant.
What is 2,000 feet?
There are this many federal dams and state-regulated dams in California.
What is 1,472 ?
The river stretches some 384 miles from its headwaters near Mount Shasta and ends here.
What is the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
Central Valley Project (CVP) Act passed.
What is 1933?
Bulletin 1 and Bulletin 2 were published this many years apart.
What is 4?
The State Water Project’s most visible facility, the California Aqueduct is an artificial river shaped like this.
What is an inverted trapezoid?
The demand for water is highest during what part of the year?
What is the dry summer months when there is little natural precipitation or snowmelt?
The headwaters of the Sacramento River and its main northern tributaries —the Pit and McCloud rivers — are regulated by this dam.
What is the Shasta Dam?
Congress passes Safe Drinking Water Act.
What is 1974?
This law assured northern counties that water would be available for future projects and $130 million of the $1.75 billion bond funding was earmarked for those projects.
What is Davis-Grunky Act?
About 30 percent of SWP water is delivered to this place via the CA Aqueduct.
What is the San Joaquin Valley farms and cities?
In 1972, the state Legislature moved to preserve the North Coast’s free-flowing rivers from development by passing theis act?
What is the California Wild and Scenic Rivers Act?
The loss of critical habitat is one of many factors that have caused an overall decline in these two fish varieties in the San Joaquin River.
What is Salmon and Steelhead?
Inyo County and Los Angeles agree to jointly manage Owens Valley water, ending 19 years of litigation.
What is 1991?
The Burns-Porter Act was formally known as this.
What is the California Water Resources Development Bond Act?
Land subsidence, or sinking, caused by groundwater pumping has reduced the flow capacity of the aqueduct by this percent.
What is by as much as 46 percentt?
The average age of the dams that fall under the jurisdiction of the Department of Water Resources.
What is 70 years?
This dam provides 977,000 acre-feet in additional storage for the Central Valley Project.
What is the Folsom Dam?