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California Aqueduct CalTrans I5 Vista Point turnout Panorama 2009
Along the northbound lanes of Interstate 5 in Merced County, California, is the Dos Amigos Pumping Plant. This is a point along the California Aqueduct which moves water from Shasta Dam and the Sacramento River in the north to southern California. It's visible to everyone transiting Interstate 5. A signed, paved turn out invites sightseers to stop and appreciate this view.
The Aqueduct began during the 1960s as two separate projects, one state and one federal.
Before wide employment of irrigation, California's central valley was grassland and vernal pools. The State Department of Fish and Wildlife estimates roughly a half million Tule Elk roamed the valley from present-day Redding in the north to today's Grapevine in the south. Stories of early European pioneers reported the sky was dark with waterfowl in fall and spring.
An early European pioneer, Henry Miller, exploited homesteading laws. Federal law said any land you could survey from a boat could be homesteaded as a single, large tract. Miller was no fool. He loaded a boat on a wagon and surveyed large pieces of California's central valley, becoming the state's largest land holder at the time.
Your corrections are welcomed.
…Californians will always be fighting over this. Most of California gets fifteen inches of rain a year. It's the same amount as Morocco. Without the world's largest system of dams, canals, and pumps, we would be like Wyoming: we would be making cow chips, not computer chips.
— Paul Rogers
Journalism grade image.
Source: 9,600x2,400 16-bit panorama TIF file.
Please do not copy this image for any purpose.
California Aqueduct CalTrans I5 Vista Point turnout Panorama 2009
Along the northbound lanes of Interstate 5 in Merced County, California, is the Dos Amigos Pumping Plant. This is a point along the California Aqueduct which moves water from Shasta Dam and the Sacramento River in the north to southern California. It's visible to everyone transiting Interstate 5. A signed, paved turn out invites sightseers to stop and appreciate this view.
The Aqueduct began during the 1960s as two separate projects, one state and one federal.
Before wide employment of irrigation, California's central valley was grassland and vernal pools. The State Department of Fish and Wildlife estimates roughly a half million Tule Elk roamed the valley from present-day Redding in the north to today's Grapevine in the south. Stories of early European pioneers reported the sky was dark with waterfowl in fall and spring.
An early European pioneer, Henry Miller, exploited homesteading laws. Federal law said any land you could survey from a boat could be homesteaded as a single, large tract. Miller was no fool. He loaded a boat on a wagon and surveyed large pieces of California's central valley, becoming the state's largest land holder at the time.
Your corrections are welcomed.
…Californians will always be fighting over this. Most of California gets fifteen inches of rain a year. It's the same amount as Morocco. Without the world's largest system of dams, canals, and pumps, we would be like Wyoming: we would be making cow chips, not computer chips.
— Paul Rogers
Journalism grade image.
Source: 9,600x2,400 16-bit panorama TIF file.
Please do not copy this image for any purpose.