page_title: Prado Reservoir
hierarchical_section_title: Prado Reservoir
caption_attribution_description: English: Aerial view of the Santa Ana River, looking into the afternoon sun, where the river forms the boundary between Norco and Eastvale, California, and flows into the Prado Flood Control Basin. The Prado Dam is just before the intersection of California highways 91 and 71 at the far side of the dark flood-control reservoir. The Pacific Ocean and Santa Catalina Island are visible in the distance. On the left, Lake Norconian at the Naval Sea Systems Command near Norco College is visible.
context_page_description: Prado Reservoir is a reservoir in northwestern Riverside County and southwestern San Bernardino County, a couple of miles west of the city of Corona, in the U.S. state of California. The reservoir has a capacity of 362,000 acre feet and is formed by Prado Dam on the Santa Ana River. The dam is composed of rock-fill and has a height of 106 feet above the original streambed. It was built on the upper end of the Lower Santa Ana River Canyon, where there is a natural constriction in the river. It is below 2,255 square miles of the 2,450-square-mile Santa Ana River watershed. The dam was built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers and was completed in 1941.
  Prado Dam and Prado Reservoir provide flood control and water conservation. Their operation is coordinated with the facilities upstream. Prado Reservoir is not a storage reservoir, so water is released as quickly as possible while still allowing for groundwater recharge. When the water level reaches the top of the buffer pool, whose size changes depending on time of year, water is released at the maximum rate that the downstream channel will safely allow.
context_section_description: Prado Reservoir is a reservoir in northwestern Riverside County and southwestern San Bernardino County, a couple of miles west of the city of Corona, in the U.S. state of California. The reservoir has a capacity of 362,000 acre feet (447,000,000 m³) and is formed by Prado Dam on the Santa Ana River.  The dam is composed of rock-fill and has a height of 106 feet (32 m) above the original streambed. It was built on the upper end of the Lower Santa Ana River Canyon, where there is a natural constriction in the river. It is below 2,255 square miles (5,840 km²) of the 2,450-square-mile (6,300 km²) Santa Ana River watershed. The dam was built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers and was completed in 1941.
  Prado Dam and Prado Reservoir provide flood control and water conservation. Their operation is coordinated with the facilities upstream. Prado Reservoir is not a storage reservoir, so water is released as quickly as possible while still allowing for groundwater recharge. When the water level reaches the top of the buffer pool, whose size changes depending on time of year, water is released at the maximum rate that the downstream channel will safely allow. As of 2006, the capacity of the channel is 5,000 cubic feet (140 m³) per second (140 m³/s), but channelization will eventually increase the capacity to 30,000 cubic feet (850 m³) per second (850 m³/s).  During flood season, the buffer pool only has a capacity of 8,437 acre feet (10,407,000 m³), while outside of flood season, the capacity increases to 25,760 acre feet (31,770,000 m³). Since this is 2.3 and 7.1 percent of the reservoir's total capacity, respectively, the reservoir is usually fairly empty.
caption: Aerial view of the Santa Ana River, looking into the afternoon sun, where the river forms the boundary between Norco (left) and Eastvale (right) and flows into the Prado Flood Control Basin before highways 91 and 71.  Santa Catalina Island in the distance.
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