California Aqueduct

The California Aqueduct, officially called Governor Edmund G. Brown California Aqueduct is a combination of several irrigation system and water supply structures in the U.S. state of California. He is part of the California State Water Project and consists of a combination of channels, tunnels and pipelines, as well as several pumping stations to conduct with the aim of water from the mountain area of the Sierra Nevada in Northern California in the drier area of Southern California. The California Aqueduct is operated by the Department of Water Resources ( DWR ). The work on it started in 1963 and the last section of Coastal Branch, the end of the line is divided into several distribution sections, was completed in 1997.

The duct system begins at the Sacramento - San Joaquin River Delta and ends after 1129 km length in Southern California in the following three terminal branches:

• West Branch: Castaic Lake, 534.5873795381.343107534 ° 35 ' 15 " N, 118 ° 39' 25 " W34.587379 - 118.656893!
• East Branch: Silverwood Lake, 534.3034575382.680092534 ° 18 ' 12 " N, 117 ° 19' 12" W34.303457 - 117.319908!
• Coastal Branch: Lake Cachuma, 534.5866565380.019025534 ° 35 ' 12 " N, 119 ° 58' 52" W34.586656 - 119.980975!

The California Aqueduct Bikeway was in the 1970s with 172 km the longest paved bike in California. He was executed as a part of the channel system and led to the Quail Lake Silverwood Lake in the San Bernardino Mountains. It was closed in 1988 for safety and liability issues unresolved.