Friant Dam photograph

Friant Dam

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Height 9700 (cm)
Locations Madera
Fresno
California
Spillway capacity83,000 cu ft/s (2,400 m3/s)
Annual generation81,409,000 KWh
Create Millerton Lake
Inactive capacity120,000 acre⋅ft (150,000 dam3)
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Date of Upd.
ID2375615
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About Friant Dam


Friant Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the San Joaquin River in central California in the United States, on the boundary of Fresno and Madera Counties. It was built between 1937 and 1942 as part of a U. S. Bureau of Reclamation water project to provide irrigation water to the southern San Joaquin Valley.

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