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A QUICK TOUR OF THE PATH THAT OUR WATER TAKES FROM NORTHERN CALIFORNIA TO THE SANTA CLARITA VALLEY
The State Water Project extends for more than 600 miles from north to south through the state.
Water is first stored in Lake Oroville, located northeast of Sacramento. At Oroville Dam, water flows through three power plants, then down the Feather and Sacramento Rivers before reaching the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is a complex network of natural and man-made channels at the confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers near the cities of Sacramento and Stockton. Water makes its way through the Delta to the Harvey O. Banks Pumping Plant where it begins its journey over 300 miles south in the California Aqueduct.
At the A.D. Edmonston Pumping Plant the water is lifted 1,926 feet (the highest single lift in the world) where it enters eight and a half miles of tunnels to cross the Tehachapi Mountains. From this point the water continues south through the West Branch of the California Aqueduct to Quail Lake, Pyramid Lake and finally into Castaic Lake.
Water is withdrawn from Castaic Lake through the intake tower just north of the main dam. From the dam, the water flows through underground pipelines as large as 244" in diameter to supply CLWA's two treatment plants, the Earl Schmidt Filtration Plant and the Rio Vista Water Treatment Plant.
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