Water in the West- Federal Water Projects- California

This map nicely shows all the federal water projects in California.

There is the Central Valley Project:

Orginallly, a state project but had to become federal ( under the Bureau of  Reclamation) because in 1933 the state had no money to build such a water system during the Great Depression. The project has 13 million acre feet of storage capacity and produces 1, 880 megawats of electricity.

The CVP would transport water to the arid Central Valley of California via canals, aqueducts and pump plants- some shared with the California State Water Project. The once water-poor San Joaquin Valley is now productive farmland.

Coachella Canal:

This is a 122 mile aqueduct that take water fomr the Colorao River from the All-American Dam to the Coachella Vally in Riverside County, CA- where it is used for irrigation. Construction began in the 1930s but was interrupted by WWII and then resumed after the war and was completed in 1949. The Coachella Canal has a capacity of

39.2 million acre-feet.

All-American Canal:

This is a 80 mile aqueduct in the southeast of California. It transports water from the Colorado River to the Imperial Valley and nine cities. It is the valleys only water source.

The Imperial Dam diverts water into the All-American Canal  and has made farming possible in this semi-arid place. The Imperial Irrigation discuss manages the water that runs out of the Canal and is resonsible for delivering  3.1 million acre feet of water to the valley.