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Introduction
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Project Description
Lower Santa Ana River
Seven Oaks Dam
Prado Dam
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Santa Ana River Project (SARP)

SARP construction and Seven Oaks Dam

Project Description

The Santa Ana River Mainstem Project is located along a 75-mile reach of the Santa Ana River in Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties. The plan for flood control improvements includes three principal features:

  • Lower river channel modification for flood control along the 30.5 miles of the Santa Ana River from Prado Dam to the Pacific Ocean.

  • Construction of Seven of Seven Oaks Dam (about 3.5 miles upstream of the existing Prado Dam) with a gross reservoir storage of 145,600 acre-feet.

  • Enlargement of Prado Dam to increase reservoir storage capacity from 217,000 acre-feet to 362,000 acre-feet.


 

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