>>18383718
The Delta–Mendota Canal is a 117-mile-long (188 km) aqueduct in central California, United States.
The canal was designed and completed in 1951 by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation as part of the Central Valley Project.
It carries freshwater to replace San Joaquin River water which is diverted into the Madera Canal and Friant-Kern Canal at Friant Dam.
The canal begins at the C.W. Bill Jones Pumping Plant (formerly the Tracy Pumping Plant).
Water is lifted 197 ft (60 m) from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta at the Clifton Court Forebay. T
he canal runs southward along the western edge of the San Joaquin Valley, parallel to the California Aqueduct,
and diverges to the east after passing the San Luis Reservoir,
receiving more water and eventually emptying into the San Joaquin River near the city of Mendota.
>>18383634
Thecanal travels through 6 state counties, Alameda, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Merced, and Fresno counties.
History
After years of drought, the state of California highlighted the importance of a large-scale water project,
thus creating the California State Water Plan,
but eventually being taken over by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in 1931 due to the Great Depression.
>The Delta–Mendota Canal (left)
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>>18383707
>wonder if the lined up tank cars were meant to be the derailed ones
attn methods 4sure