San Luis Unit - Los Banos, CA
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N 37° 04.841 W 121° 05.862
10S E 669088 N 4105516
The San Luis Unit was dedicated by Stewart Udall in the 1960s.
Waymark Code: WMV5YP
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 02/28/2017
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The plaque reads: "San Luis Unit Joint Facilities of the Central Valley Project and State Water Project. Dedicated by Secretary of the Interior Stewart L Udall. April 20, 1968 Constructed by United States Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation."
Stewart Udall: (January 31, 1920 – March 20, 2010)was an American politician and later, a federal government official. After serving three terms as a congressman from Arizona, he served as Secretary of the Interior from 1961 to 1969, under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. (
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About the San Luis Unit: " San Luis Unit consist of several major facilities that are shared with the federal California State Water Project (SWP). The San Luis Dam (or B.F. Sisk Dam) is the largest storage facility, holding 2,000,000 acre feet (2,500,000 dam3) of water. Although called an offstream storage reservoir by BoR, the reservoir floods part of the San Luis Creek valley. San Luis Creek, however, is not the primary water source for the reservoir. Downstream of San Luis Reservoir is O'Neill Forebay, which is intersected by the Delta-Mendota Canal, a separate CVP facility. Water is pumped from the canal into the Forebay[37] and uphill into San Luis Reservoir, which functions as an additional water source during dry periods." (
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