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Parker Dam, at the Ariz.–Calif. line, on the Colorado River; completed 1938. It is 320 ft (98 m) high and 856 ft (261 m) long. The dam impounds water for Los Angeles and other coastal cities, has a power plant, and supplies some water for irrigation. It also diverts water to Arizona. |
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The 45-mile-long waterway marks the border between Arizona and California, and was created by the construction of Parker Dam on the Colorado River in 1938. The program follows Howser as he tracks MWD's 242-mile aqueduct system, beginning with the district's massive, 9,000-horsepower pumps near Parker Dam at Lake Havasu on the Colorado River and ending at Lake Matthews, the system's terminal reservoir in Riverside County. |
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