 A photo of Friant Dam taken in 2003. The hydroelectric plant is in the foreground. Friant Dam is a concrete gravity dam located near the town of Friant, California on the upper San Joaquin River. The dam, completed in 1942, forms Millerton Lake and was built by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which owns and operates the dam. The lake and dam are about 15 miles north of Fresno. The lake stores 520,528 acre-feet of water for the irrigation of the San Joaquin Valley, which is distributed by the Madera and Friant-Kern Canals. Its secondary uses include flood control and recreation. Upstream from the dam is the Big Creek hydroelectric system. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 1287 KB) Description: Friant Dam in Friant, CA. Source: The photograph was taken by kjkolb. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 1287 KB) Description: Friant Dam in Friant, CA. Source: The photograph was taken by kjkolb. ...
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Friant is a census-designated place located in Fresno County, California. ...
The San Joaquin River is one of the largest rivers in the state of California. ...
The United States Bureau of Reclamation (Formerly the United States Reclamation Service) is a division of the U.S. Department of the Interior which oversees water development projects in the western United States. ...
Fresno is the county seat of Fresno County, California. ...
An acre foot is a unit of volume commonly used in the United States in reference to large-scale water resources, such as reservoirs, aqueducts, canals, and river flows. ...
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The eight-county San Joaquin Valley is the part of the Central Valley of California that lies south of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in Stockton. ...
Big Creek is a tributary of the San Joaquin River. ...
The 25-MW Friant Power Plant in front of the dam produces hydroelectricity for the Friant Power Authority. There are two smaller power plants that produce power with the minimum-flow release water and the water for fish hatchery operations. Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is a form of hydropower, (i. ...
A power station (also power plant) is a facility for the generation of electric power. ...
A hatchery is a man-made farm for fish, used to cultivate and breed a large number of fish in a enclosed environment regulary as opposed to going out and finding the fish naturally. ...
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