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
Friant Dam
Friant Dam & Millerton Lake, 2012
U.S. government photograph of several re-interred Native Americans whose graves had been in the dam's planned reservoir
The Friant-Kern Canal, the larger of the two canals supplied with water from Friant Dam
The Friant-Kern Canal is a 152 mi aqueduct managed by the United States Bureau of Reclamation in Central California to convey water to augment irrigation capacity in Fresno, Tulare, and Kern counties.
Friant Dam
…Lake began to fill on February 21, 1944. Work on the Madera Canal, the smaller of the two irrigation canals serviced by Friant Dam (the other, the Friant-Kern Canal, would not be completed for another four years), was completed in 1945 and water ran for its entire length for the first time on June 10, with irrigation…
2013, California 46 Bridge over Friant-Kern Canal, Central Valley Project Irrigation System - panoramio
2013, Friant-Kern Canal, Central Valley Project Irrigation System - panoramio
Millerton Lake, Friant, California (21582117291)