San Diego Aqueduct
| Official name | San Diego Project |
|---|---|
| Begins |
First Aqueduct Colorado River Aqueduct 33°49′19″N 116°58′03″W / 33.821870°N 116.967520°W Second Aqueduct Casa Loma Canal Aqueduct 33°47′27″N 117°01′50″W / 33.790740°N 117.030487°W |
| Ends |
First Aqueduct San Vicente Reservoir 32°55′13″N 116°56′26″W / 32.920401°N 116.940687°W Second Aqueduct Lower Otay Reservoir 32°36′28″N 116°55′40″W / 32.607857°N 116.927769°W |
| Maintained by | San Diego County Water Authority |
| Length | 225.1 mi (362.3 km) |
| Capacity |
First Aqueduct 196 cu ft/s (5.6 m3/s) Second Aqueduct canal: 500 cu ft (14 m3) pipeline 3: 250 cu ft (7.1 m3) pipeline 4: 380 cu ft (11 m3) |
| Construction began |
First Aqueduct pipeline 1: 1945 pipeline 2: 1952 Second Aqueduct pipeline 3: 1957 pipeline 4: 1968 |
| Opening date |
First Aqueduct pipeline 1: 1947 pipeline 2: 1954 Second Aqueduct pipeline 3: 1960 pipeline 4: 1971 |
The San Diego Aqueduct, or San Diego Project, is a system of four aqueducts in the U.S. state of California, supplying about 90 percent of the water supply for the city of San Diego. The system comprises the First and Second San Diego Aqueducts, carrying water from the Colorado River west to reservoirs on the outskirts of San Diego. The 70-mile (110 km) First Aqueduct consists of the pipelines 1 and 2, which run from the Colorado River Aqueduct near San Jacinto, California, to the San Vicente Reservoir, approximately 15 miles (24 km) northeast of the city. Pipelines 3 and 4 make up the 94-mile (151 km) Second Aqueduct. Together, these four pipelines have a capacity of 826 cubic feet per second (23.4 m3/s). The smaller, 12.5-mile (20.1 km) Fallbrook-Ocean Branch branches from the First Aqueduct into Morrow Reservoir. The La Mesa-Sweetwater Branch originates from the First Aqueduct, flowing into the Sweetwater Reservoir.
The First Aqueduct was designed by the Bureau of Reclamation and constructed from 1945 to 1947 by the Navy Department. Pipeline 2, of the First Aqueduct, was built by the Bureau of Reclamation from 1952 and 1957, roughly paralleling Pipeline 1. In 1957, the construction of Pipeline 3 of the Second Aqueduct was begun by the Metropolitan Water District (MWD), completing it in May 1960. In 1968, the construction of Pipeline 4, of the Second Aqueduct, began. Pipeline 4 was completed in 1971. In 2005, the San Diego County Water Authority began construction on the 11-mile-long (18 km), 8.5-foot-wide (2.6 m) San Vicente Pipeline, connecting the San Vicente Reservoir to the Second Aqueduct. Construction on the project was complete completed in 2010.
The First Aqueduct, built of two parallel precast concrete pipes, ranging in diameter from 96 to 48 in (240 to 120 cm), branches from the Colorado River Aqueduct in San Jacinto, California just north of the San Jacinto River, continuing 70 mi (110 km) south to its terminus at San Vicente Reservoir. There are seven tunnels on the First Aqueduct, which range in length from 500 to 5,700 ft (150 to 1,740 m). The total capacity of the First Aqueduct is 196 cu ft/s (5.6 m3/s).
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