Elderberry Forebay Dam - Reservoir

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Elderberry Forebay Dam is a dam located in the Sierra Pelona Mountains of northwestern Los Angeles County, California. The dam partitions Elderberry Forebay from Castaic Lake. It forms the headwater reservoir for Castaic Power Plant, a pumped-storage hydroelectricity generation facility.[1][3] The dam was completed in 1974 as part of the California State Water Project.

Elderberry Forebay Dam
Location	Los Angeles County, California
Coordinates	34°33′43″N 118°37′51″W
Opening date	1974
Dam and spillways
Type of dam	Earthfill[1]
Impounds	Castaic Creek
Height	179 ft (55 m)[1]
Length	1,935 ft (590 m)[1]
Elevation at crest	1,550 ft (470 m)[1]
Width (base)	25 ft (7.6 m)[1]
Dam volume	5,896,950 cu yd (4,508,540 m³)[1]
Reservoir
Creates	Elderberry Forebay
Total capacity	28,400 acre⋅ft (35,000 dam³)[1]
Catchment area	81.6 sq mi (211 km²)[1]
Surface area	450 acres (180 ha)[1]
Normal elevation	1,519 ft (463 m)[2]

References

"Dams Within the Jurisdiction of the State of California (A-G)" (PDF). California Department of Water Resources, Division of Safety of Dams. Retrieved November 1, 2013.
"Elderberry Forebay". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
"Castaic Lake" (PDF). California Department of Water Resources. Retrieved November 1, 2013.

v t e 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 North Bay Aqueduct South Bay Aqueduct
Other facilities	Banks Pumping Plant Buena Vista 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

v t e Dams in Los Angeles County, California
CA Department of Water Resources	Castaic Elderberry Forebay Pyramid
LA Department of Public Works	Big Dalton Big Tujunga Cogswell Devil's Gate Eaton Wash Live Oak Morris Pacoima Puddingstone San Dimas San Gabriel Santa Anita Sawpit (disused) Sierra Madre Thompson Creek
LA Department of Water and Power	Baldwin Hills (failed) Bouquet Chatsworth (unsafe: emptied) Dry Canyon (unsafe: emptied) Encino Fairmont Los Angeles Mulholland Silver Lake St. Francis (failed) Stone Canyon Van Norman (aka San Fernando) (failed)
US Army Corps of Engineers	Hansen Santa Fe Sepulveda Whittier Narrows
Other	Brown Mountain Dam (disused) Las Virgenes Little Rock Rindge (disused)

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