Editing Central Valley Project (section)

=== San Joaquin River ===
The CVP also has several dams on the [[San Joaquin River]]—which has far less average flow than the Sacramento—in order to divert its water to southern Central Valley aqueducts. The [[Friant Dam]], completed in 1942, is the largest component of the Friant Division of the CVP.<ref name="friantdiv">{{cite web
|url=http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Project.jsp?proj_Name=Friant%20Division%20Project
|title=Friant Division
|publisher=U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
|work=Central Valley Project
|date=2009-05-27
|access-date=2010-01-16
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111112083924/http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Project.jsp?proj_Name=Friant%20Division%20Project
|archive-date=November 12, 2011
|url-status=dead
}}</ref> The dam crosses the San Joaquin River where it spills out of the Sierra Nevada, forming [[Millerton Lake]],<ref name="FriantDam">{{cite web
|url=http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Facility.jsp?fac_Name=Friant%20Dam
|title=Friant Dam
|publisher=U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
|work=Friant Division
|date=2009-06-04
|access-date=2010-01-16}}</ref> which provides water storage for San Joaquin Valley irrigators as well as providing a diversion point for a pair of canals, the [[Friant-Kern Canal]] and the [[Madera Canal]]. The Friant-Kern Canal sends water southwards through the [[Tulare Lake]] area to its terminus at [[Bakersfield, California|Bakersfield]] on the [[Kern River]], supplying irrigation water to [[Tulare County, California|Tulare]], [[Fresno County, California|Fresno]], and [[Kern County, California|Kern]] counties.<ref name="friantdiv"/> The Madera Canal takes water northwards to [[Madera County, California|Madera County]], emptying into the [[Chowchilla River]].<ref name="friantdiv"/> The Central Valley also consisted of 500 miles of canals, providing the city dwellers and power sales from the generation of electricity pay of the project costs.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Great Thirst: Californians and Water|last=Norris|first=Hundley|publisher=University of California Press|year=1992|page=374}}</ref>