Diamond Valley Lake
Reservoir in CaliforniaWikipedia
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Oct 1, 2026
Darcy VilleryHOST
Yeah
Darcy BurkeHOST
... and, and that's, and that's Metropolitan, and we did not get any in Diamond Valley Lake 'cause we stopped putting that water in there.
Darcy BurkeHOST
And, and golden mussels are their larger cousins, believe it or not.
Darcy VilleryHOST
Yeah.
Brittany Elizabeth StonebergGUEST
And the reason our museum exists is that in the 1990s, they decided that they needed to build a man-made reservoir.
Brittany Elizabeth StonebergGUEST
It's now called Diamond Valley Lake.
Brittany Elizabeth StonebergGUEST
And they needed to build that so that they could have drinking water for Los Angeles and San Diego in the case of like the big one or some sort of situation where you would need six months of drinking water for these cities.
Brittany Elizabeth StonebergGUEST
So it was going to be one of the largest Earth-moving projects ever at the time when it was happening in the 90s.