Helms Creek

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Helms Creek is a tributary of the North Fork Kings River in Fresno County, California. [1] The stream drains a remote mountainous part of the Sierra National Forest. The Courtright Dam on Helms Creek forms the 123,300-acre-foot (152,100,000 m3) Courtright Reservoir, which is the upper reservoir for the Helms Pumped Storage Plant.

North Fork Kings River river in the United States of America

The North Fork Kings River is a 40.3-mile (64.9 km) tributary of the Kings River, in the U.S. state of California. The river's main stem is entirely within Fresno County, and its watershed drains about 387 square miles (1,000 km2) of the southern Sierra Nevada mountain range.

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California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States. With 39.6 million residents, California is the most populous U.S. state and the third-largest by area. The state capital is Sacramento. The Greater Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nation's second and fifth most populous urban regions, with 18.7 million and 9.7 million residents respectively. Los Angeles is California's most populous city, and the country's second most populous, after New York City. California also has the nation's most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. The City and County of San Francisco is both the country's second-most densely populated major city after New York City and the fifth-most densely populated county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs.

Sierra National Forest

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The Helms Pumped Storage Plant is located 50 mi (80 km) east of Fresno, California in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range's Sierra National Forest. It is a power station that uses Helms Creek canyon on the North Fork of the Kings River for off-river water storage and the pumped-storage hydroelectric method to generate electricity. After being planned in the early 1970s, construction on the plant began in June 1977 and commercial operations began on 30 June 1984. It has an installed capacity of 1,212 MW and is owned by Pacific Gas and Electric Company.

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References

  1. ↑ "Helms Creek". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey. 1981-01-19. Retrieved 2014-09-05.

Coordinates: 37°03′01″N118°56′40″W / 37.05028°N 118.94444°W / 37.05028; -118.94444

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