Lake Casitas
Lake Casitas is a reservoir in Ventura County, California, built by the United States Bureau of Reclamation and completed in 1959. The project provides drinking water and water for irrigation. A secondary benefit is flood control.

Casitas Dam was constructed on Coyote Creek, two miles (3 km) before it joins the Ventura River. Santa Ana Creek and North Fork Coyote Creek also flow into the lake. The system was designed for water from the Ventura River to be diverted into a canal under specific conditions since the impounded watershed is not sufficient to fill the lake.<ref name="VCS 2019/03/12"></ref> The dam is creating a lake capacity of . The dam was built as part of the Ventura River Project. In the center of Lake Casitas is 2 km Main Island, whose peak rises more than from the lake surface.
Q131681
reservoir
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Q108127
Ventura County, California
LOC
Q1010548
United States Bureau of Reclamation
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Q7892
drinking water
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Q11453
irrigation
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Q8068
flood
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Q5048952
Casitas Dam
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Coyote Creek
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Ventura River
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Q12323
dam
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Lake Casitas
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Q6475203
Lake Casitas
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1959-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1959
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2019-03-12T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
2019/03/12
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3
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+2^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
2
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instance of
dam
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