Dos Amigos Pumping Plant

Dos Amigos Pumping Plant (view to north).

Dos Amigos Pumping Plant is a water pumping plant of the California State Water Project, located 10 miles (16 km) south of Los Banos, on Interstate 5, within central Merced County, in the San Joaquin Valley, central California.

The plant is the second pumping plant for the California Aqueduct and the South Bay Aqueduct. It provides the necessary fluid head (potential energy) for the California Aqueduct to flow for approximately 95 miles (153 km) to where the Coastal Branch splits from the "main line" approximately 10 miles (16 km) south-southeast of Kettleman City.

After the Coastal Branch junction, the line continues south by gravity another 66 miles (106 km) to the Buena Vista Pumping Plant.

Specifications

Units: 6
Normal static head: 118 ft (36 m)
Total flow at design head: 15,450 cu ft (437 m³) per second

External links

U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Dos Amigos Pumping Plant

Coordinates: 36°55′26″N 120°49′40″W / 36.923889°N 120.827778°W / 36.923889; -120.827778

California State Water Project

Dams	Antelope B.F. Sisk Bethany Castaic Cedar Springs Del Valle Elderberry Forebay Fish Barrier Frenchman Grizzly Valley Little Panoche Los Banos Dam O'Neill Oroville Perris Pyramid Quail Lake Thermalito Afterbay Thermalito Diversion Thermalito Forebay

Reservoirs	Antelope Lake Bethany Reservoir Castaic Lake Clifton Court Forebay Elderberry Forebay Frenchman Lake Lake Davis Lake Del Valle Lake Oroville Lake Perris Little Panoche Reservoir Los Banos Reservoir O'Neill Forebay Pyramid Lake Quail Lake San Luis Reservoir Silverwood Lake Tehachapi Afterbay Thermalito Afterbay Thermalito Forebay

Rivers and bodies of water	Feather River Piru Creek Sacramento River Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta San Luis Creek

Aqueducts and canals	California Aqueduct Coastal Branch East Branch West Branch North Bay Aqueduct South Bay Aqueduct

Other facilities	Banks Pumping Plant Castaic Power Plant Devil Canyon Power Plant Dos Amigos Pumping Plant Edmonston Pumping Plant Feather River Fish Hatchery Kern River Intertie O'Neill Pumping-Generating Plant Oroville-Thermalito Complex South Bay Pumping Plant

Related	CALFED Bay-Delta Program California Department of Water Resources Peripheral Canal Bay Delta Conservation Plan

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