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Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-09-27

Total Pages: 22

ISBN-13: 9781333760205

Excerpt from Information on Kesterson Reservoir and Waterfowl Kesterson Reservoir is located just east of Gustine at the terminus of the existing portion of the San Luis Drain. The reservoir was built by the Bureau of Recla mation in 1971, and consists of 12 shallow ponds with a total water surface area of about acres and an average depth of 4 feet The reservoir was designed originally to regulate flows in the San Luis Drain for ultimate discharge into the western Delta at Suisun Bay. It presently serves as a storage and evaporation facility for about acre-feet annually of agricultural drain age water from about acres of land west of Men dota. These lands are located within the San Luis Unit in an area known geologically as the Panoche Fan. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.