CONSTRUCTION OF THE CALIFORNIA AQUEDUCT & OROVILLE DAM WATER SOUTH 60674

This film WATER SOUTH looks at the construction of the California Aqueduct starting in 1960, including rare footage of the construction of the Oroville Dam. The California Aqueduct is a system of canals, tunnels, and pipelines that conveys water collected from the Sierra Nevada Mountains and valleys of Northern and Central California to Southern California. The over 400-mile (640 km) aqueduct is the principal feature of the California State Water Project. The Department of Water Resources (DWR) operates and maintains the California Aqueduct.

The film begins this way ... The world faces many issues, a vital one is water supply due to the population increase. Since the 1950’s population doubled and neared tripling presenting the greatest issues in California (1:15). This film focuses on the greatest aqueduct endeavor of the time (1:36). In California, 70% of the water originated from it's northern parts, yet 77% of the state's water needs were in the southern regions (2:19). One of the world's largest water system is directed from Los Angeles (2:39). Concerns arose that the Colorado River Aqueduct would not meet the growing needs of California (3:11). The California Aqueduct was being built by the state and would bring surplus water from the north 450 miles to south (3:21). On November 8th, 1960 voters authorized finances for the project and the first contract was signed by the Metropolitan Water District (3:51). They would contract for the largest amount of water and bear 70% of the project's cost (4:24). It would begin in the high country of North California from streams connecting to the Feather River (5:17). This river rests a few miles above the city of Oroville (5:25). In the areas ravaged from gold mining, rocks and adobe clay were used for the basic building material (6:05). Clay is utilized to form the dam’s water tight core (7:41). A diagram is utilized to show where, during completion the dam would rise to (7:54). It's base would extend by the highway bridge which is then demolished (8:01). A new highway, new bridges and railroads would be constructed as additional benefits (8:22). After completion, water released through turbines would generate electricity (9:17). A cavern downstream of the base would house the Oroville power plant (9:32). Of it's six units generating electricity, three could be reversed into pumps (9:47) and enable recovery of the dam’s pumping expenses (10:25). Scientists and engineers tracked the projects progress frequently (10:55). During the excavation, prehistoric Native American remains and early Californian artifacts are collected and cataloged (11:30). In Sacramento, at the headquarters of the State Resources Agency, plans are drawn and the electronic control center is based here (11:38). Under the Sacramento River, massive pipes would carry the canal’s flow to resivors (13:18). On the delta’s southern edge is the beginning of the California’s Aqueduct in which more than three and a half billion gallons of water will be lifted 24 stories daily (13:43). Many counties will be served from the aqueducts many branches such as Alameda, Santa Clara and Napa (14:08). The key undertaking would be the St. Luis sector, three miles long and creating a resivor unlike any other in size (14:25). The state takes over the aqueduct’s construction at Kettlemen City (16:34).
Because the San Andreas fault’s (17:42) size any aqueduct for southern California would have to cross it and underlying tunnels must be resistant to earthquakes (18:20). Water from here (19:00) would flow into Cottonwood Canyon and then serve Antelope Valley and the Mojave desert (19:23).
It would continue through many tunnels and hydro electric plants along it's path (19:47). Eventually, engineers hoped to have at least one sea water conversion plant (20:54). However, distribution of water from the California water duct was the main issue and it was to be completed in the 1970’s (21:02). A foothill feeder had to be constructed, along with massive lines to cover the entirety of southern California (22:51). Increasing attention was directed to the wasted water flowing into the sea from the Columbia river, yet that was a project for the future (25:16).

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