CASTAIC WATER AGENCY TO GET FULL STATE SHARE.Byline: Daily News SANTA CLARITA Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, - The Castaic Lake Castaic Lake is a lake on Castaic Creek formed by Castaic Dam, in northwestern Los Angeles County, California, near the town of Castaic. The 323,700 acre foot lake (399,000,000 m³) is the terminus of the West Branch of the California Aqueduct, though some comes from the 154 mi² Water Agency said it will receive its full allotment of water from the State Water Project this year for the first time in seven years due to record rainfall in Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern . The agency overseeing the valley's annual California Aqueduct allocations said it will receive 95,200 acre-feet of water from the state Department of Water Resources. An acre-foot is 326,000 gallons - enough to serve about two households a year. Last year's allocation was 90 percent. The allotments make up more than half of the valley's annual supply - estimated at 148,000 acre-feet this year, the agency said. The projected demand was 91,500 acre-feet. A wet winter has dropped an average of 78 inches of rain in Northern California so far - 156 percent of normal, according to the National Weather Service in Sacramento. The snowpack snow·pack n. An area of naturally formed, packed snow that usually melts during the warmer months. snowpack 1. statewide was 125 percent of normal. |
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