Lahontan Basin A major basin within the Great Basin that is fed by the Truckee, Carson, Walker, Susan, Quinn and Humboldt Rivers. It has a drainage or hydrologic area of about 45,000 square miles and during the Pleistocene Epoch (11,000 years B.P. to approximately 1.8 million years B.P.) Contained the 8,600 square mile Lake Lahontan. The Lahontan basin encompasses much of northern Nevada and parts of eastern California and southern Oregon. Lahontan Valley Environmental Alliance (LVEA) Nevada An association of Lahontan Valley (Churchill County, Nevada) entities formed in October 1993 to represent the broad-based concerns and issues of the Newlands Irrigation Project’s residents including quality of life, water quality and quantity, municipal and industrial water supply, and land-use planning issues. The LVEA membership includes the City of Fallon, Town of Fernley, Churchill County, Truckee-Carson Irrigation District (TCID), Lahontan Conservation District and the Stillwater Conservation District.
Source: http://www.bvsde.paho.org/bvsacg/i/fulltext/dicciona/dicciona.pdf
Web site to visit: http://www.state.nv.us/cnr/ndwp/home.htm
Author of the Water Words Dictionary source of text: Gary A. Horton
If you are the author of the text above and you not agree to share your knowledge for teaching, research, scholarship (for fair use as indicated in the United States copyrigh low) please send us an e-mail and we will remove your text quickly. Fair use is a limitation and exception to the exclusive right granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work. In United States copyright law, fair use is a doctrine that permits limited use of copyrighted material without acquiring permission from the rights holders. Examples of fair use include commentary, search engines, criticism, news reporting, research, teaching, library archiving and scholarship. It provides for the legal, unlicensed citation or incorporation of copyrighted material in another author's work under a four-factor balancing test. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use)
The information of medicine and health contained in the site are of a general nature and purpose which is purely informative and for this reason may not replace in any case, the council of a doctor or a qualified entity legally to the profession.
The following texts are the property of their respective authors and we thank them for giving us the opportunity to share for free to students, teachers and users of the Web their texts will used only for illustrative educational and scientific purposes only.
All the information in our site are given for nonprofit educational purposes
The information of medicine and health contained in the site are of a general nature and purpose which is purely informative and for this reason may not replace in any case, the council of a doctor or a qualified entity legally to the profession.
www.riassuntini.com