Stretching 242 miles from the Colorado River on the California-Arizona border to its final holding reservoir near Riverside, California, the Colorado River Aqueduct consists of more than 90 miles of tunnels, nearly 55 miles of cut-and-cover conduit, almost 30 miles of siphons, and five pumping stations. Supplying approximately 1.2 million acre-feet of water a year - more than a billion gallons a day - it helped make possible the phenomenal growth of Los Angeles, San Diego, and surrounding Southern California areas in the second half of the 20th century.
Metropolitan Water District
Parker Dam State: CA Zip: Country: USA Website: http://www.asce.org/Project/Colorado-River-Aqueduct/ Creator: Weymouth, Frank E.
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Courtesy Flickr/Chuck Coker (CC BY-ND 2.0)
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Colorado River Aqueduct sinks into a tunnel underneath California State Highway 62
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1933
1994
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Stretching 242 miles from the Colorado River on the California-Arizona border to its final holding reservoir near Riverside, California, the Colorado River Aqueduct consists of more than 90 miles of tunnels, nearly 55 miles of cut-and-cover conduit, almost 30 miles of siphons, and five…
