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Chapter 5: Creating Water Companies
MAJ
OR DAMS IN SAN DIEGO COUNTY
(IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER OF CONSTRUCTI
ON)
Dam Completed Capacity in acre-feet
Built by/Owned by
Sweetwater
1886
30,079
Ki
mball
Brothers Water Company/Sweetwater Authority
Cuyamaca
1886
8,195
San Diego Flume Company/Helix Water District
Lower Otay
1897
49,849
Southern California Mountain Water Company/City of San Diego
1918+
Morena
1912
50,694
Southern California Mountain Water Company/City of San Diego
Escondido
1895
6,506
Escondido Mutual
Water Company/City of Escondidio
(Lake Wohlford)
1924 +
San Dieguito
1918
883
Santa Fe Irrigation District/San Dieguito Water District & Santa Fe Irrigation District
Murray
1918
4,684
La Mesa, Lemon Grove and Spring Valley Irrigation District/City of San Diego
Hodges
1918
30,251
San Dieguito Mutual
Water Company/City of San Diego
Barrett
1922
34,806
Southern California Mountain Water Company/City of San Diego
Henshaw
1922
51,774
San Diego County Water Company/Vista Irrigation District
El
Capitan
1934
112,807
City of San Diego
San Vicente
1943
89,312
City of San Diego
2013*
240,791
Expanded capacity (152,000 AF) owned by San Diego County Water Authority
Loveland
1945
25,400
California Water and Telephone Company/Sweetwater Authority
Sutherland
1954
29,508
City of San Diego
Miramar
1960
6,682
City of San Diego
Chet Harritt
1962
9,790
Helix Water District
(Lake Jennings)
Dixon
1970
2,606
City of Escondido
Poway
1971
3,330
City of Poway
Turner
1971
1,612
Valley Center
Municipal
Water District
Red Mountain
1985
1,335
Fallbrook Public Utility District
Ramona
1988
12,000
Ramona Municipal
Water District
Olivenhain
2003
27,774
San Diego County Water Authority
San Vicente Dam Raise
+ Rebuilt *When completed in 2013