Transcript Slide 1

1.One of the largest lakes west of
Mississippi (approx. 650 sq. miles.).
2.73,000 fish exported to San Francisco in
a 3 month period
3.About 30 minute drive from Clovis West.
Where did
Tulare Lake
go?
Kings River
Pine Flat Lake
Pine Flat Dam (1954)
Kaweah River
Lake Kaweah
Terminus Dam (1962)
Tule River
Lake Success
Success Dam (1961)
Kern River
Lake Isabella
Isabella Dam (1953)
Delta Mendota Canal (1951)
purpose is to replace the water in
the San Joaquin River that is diverted
into Madera Canal and Friant-Kern
Canal at Friant Dam
Friant Dam
(1942)
In 1948, California Fish and Game
biologist George Warner tried in
vain to save the last of the San
Joaquin River's salmon
•Approx. 60 miles of
river went dry
•Chinook Salmon
migration ended
The Hetch Hetchy (1934) delivers about 265,000 acre-feet of pristine
Sierra Nevada water per year, providing for about 80% of urban uses for
San Francisco, as well as parts of San Mateo, Santa Clara and Alameda
counties.
The Hetch Hetchy system consists of 11 reservoirs, numerous water
conveyance pipelines, and water treatment facilities. The system also
generates over 2 billion kilowatt hours per year of hydropower.
The California State Water Project – 1960’s
•Water storage and delivery system of reservoirs, aqueducts,
power plants and pumping plants.
• Its main purpose is to store water and distribute it to 29
urban and agricultural water suppliers in Northern California,
the San Francisco Bay Area, the San Joaquin Valley, the Central
Coast, and Southern California.
•Of the contracted water supply, 70 percent goes to urban
users and 30 percent goes to agricultural users.
•The Project makes deliveries to two-thirds of California's
population.
1941