Central Valley Project
Map showing CVP facilities in the state of California.
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Map of CVP canal system in the San Joaquin Valley. CVP aqueducts are in blue while SWP aqueducts are in red.
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| General statistics | |
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| Begun | 1933 |
| Storage dams |
Auburn (canceled) Contra Loma Folsom Friant Funks New Melones San Justo San Luis Shasta Sly Park Trinity Whiskeytown |
| Additional dams | Camp Creek Diversion County Line (unbuilt) Keswick Lewiston Little Panoche Los Baños Nimbus Red Bluff O'Neill Spring Creek Sugar Pine |
| Power plants | Friant (25 MW) Folsom (199 MW) Judge Francis Carr (154 MW) Keswick (117 MW) New Melones (300 MW) Nimbus (7.7 MW) Shasta (676 MW) Spring Creek (180 MW) Trinity (140 MW) William R. Gianelli (424 MW) |
| Operations | |
| Storage capacity | 13,410,683 acre feet (16,541,834 dam3) |
| Annual water yield | 7,000,000 acre feet (8,600,000 dam3) |
| Land irrigated | 3,000,000 acres (1,200,000 ha) |
| Total generation capacity | 2,254 MW |
| Total annual generation | 5.18 TWh (2004) |
The Central Valley Project (CVP) is a federal water management project in the U.S. state of California under the supervision of the United States Bureau of Reclamation. It was devised in 1933 in order to provide irrigation and municipal water to much of California's Central Valley—by regulating and storing water in reservoirs in the water-rich northern half of the state, and transporting it to the water-poor San Joaquin Valley and its surroundings by means of a series of canals, aqueducts and pump plants, some shared with the California State Water Project (SWP). Many CVP water users are represented by the Central Valley Project Water Association.
In addition to water storage and regulation, the system has a hydroelectric capacity of over 2,000 megawatts, provides recreation, and provides flood control with its twenty dams and reservoirs. It has allowed major cities to grow along Valley rivers which previously would flood each spring, and transformed the semi-arid desert environment of the San Joaquin Valley into productive farmland. Freshwater stored in Sacramento River reservoirs and released downriver during dry periods prevents salt water from intruding into the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta during high tide. There are eight divisions of the project and ten corresponding units, many of which operate in conjunction, while others are independent of the rest of the network. California agriculture and related industries now directly account for 7% of the gross state product for which the CVP supplied water for about half.
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