Which canal is longer, the Central Arizona Project or the Sacramento Deep Water Ship Channel?
Sacramento Deep Water Ship Channel The Sacramento Deep Water Ship Channel (also known as Sacramento River Deep Water Ship Channel or SRDWSC) is a canal from the Port of Sacramento in West Sacramento, California to the Sacramento River, which flows into San Francisco Bay. It was completed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in 1963. The channel is about 30 feet (9 m) deep, 200 feet (61 m) wide and 43 miles (69 km) long.
Keswick Dam Keswick Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Sacramento River about 2 mi northwest of Redding, California. Part of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's Central Valley Project, the dam is 157 ft high and impounds the Keswick Reservoir, which has a capacity of 23800 acre feet . The dam's power plant has three turbines with a generating capacity of 117 megawatts (MW), which, in 1992, was uprated from its original 75 MW. The dam and reservoir serve as a forebay to regulate peaking power releases from the Shasta Dam upstream.