About Lake Skinner
Skinner Reservoir, also called Lake Skinner, is a reservoir in western Riverside County, California, located inside the Auld Valley on the foot of Bachelor Mountain, approximately 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Temecula. It presently has a potential of 44,200 acre feet (54,500,000 m3) created in 1973 and created via the construction of the Skinner Clearwell Dam (multiplied 1991) on Tucalota Creek. Located simply off Rancho California Road, The deal with of the reservoir is: 37701 Warren Road, Temecula, CA 92592.
Lake Skinner is operated by using the Riverside County Regional Park and Open-Space District (RivCo Parks), under hire through the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. It is supplied by means of the Colorado River Aqueduct and the State Water Project, and feeds the Robert A. Skinner filtration plant, which provides dealt with water to 2.5 million people in Riverside and San Diego Counties. It is known as after Robert A. Skinner, popular supervisor of the Metropolitan Water District from 1962 to 1967, who was instrumental in negotiating Metropolitan's settlement with the California Department of Water Resources for shipping of water from Northern California.
Lake Skinner is a famous recreation location, proposing sailing, fishing, swimming (in an off-reservoir swimming area), horseback driving and hiking.[4] The Lake Skinner recreational area includes 1,four hundred acres (five.7 km²) of floor water and three hundred acres (1.2 km²) of lakeside parkland, functions 158 RV websites and three hundred advanced campsites, and is the website of the annual Temecula Valley Balloon & Wine Festival and the Solar Cup competition.
The reservoir became formed via production of a dam on Tucalota Creek, together with minor creeks named Middle Creek and Schoolhouse Creek.[7][8] Tucalota Creek beneath the reservoir flows to Santa Gertrudis Creek, then Murrieta Creek, then to the Santa Margarita River and ultimately to the Pacific Ocean.
Ecology of Lake Skinner
The reservoir and nearby Southwestern Riverside County Multi-Species Reserve host endangered species which include Least Bell’s vireo and Southwestern willow flycatcher, depending on riparian willow habitat that is created and maintained with the aid of North American beaver.