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5-759: The South Bay Pumping Plant is located 4 miles (6 km) southwest of the Clifton Court Forebay and 10.3 miles (17 km) northeast of Livermore, CA . The plant is the only main line pumping plant for the 42.9 mile (69 km) long South Bay Aqueduct . The plant pumps from the Bethany Reservoir which is part of the California Aqueduct . Del Valle Pumping Plant is another pumping plant on the South Bay Aqueduct which pumps water into Lake Del Valle for storage. This water supply –related article
10-594: A large enough earthquake happens near or at the Clifton Court Forebay, the California water system for irrigation and municipal use will be adversely affected. Several earthquakes have nearly shut down the Forebay. The 2014 South Napa earthquake and the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake came very close to shutting down the Forebay intake system. The Clifton Forebay is a wetland system that drained nearby small rivers into
15-481: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Alameda County, California building and structure-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Clifton Court Forebay Clifton Court Forebay is a reservoir in the San Joaquin River Delta region of eastern Contra Costa County, California , 17 mi (27 km) southwest of Stockton . The estuary region
20-552: The Pacific Ocean. Only in recent times was its freshwater drainage functions turned into a gateway to water storage. The Central Valley region that this forebay interfaces with is very gradually filling in the central valley with sediments. The region may be rebounding from recent run ins with glaciations that affected North America. A documentary about the decline of the United States' infrastructure, The Crumbling of America ,
25-679: The forebay is located in is only 1m to 3m above mean sea level. The body of water was created in 1969 by inundating a 2,200-acre (890 ha) tract as part of the California State Water Project . It serves as the intake point of the California Aqueduct for transport to Southern California , and feeds the Delta–Mendota Canal (a part of the Central Valley Project ) to recharge San Joaquin Valley river systems. If
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