The lake is a regulating reservoir for releases from Lake McClure.
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The area between is called the Pelton Regulating Reservoir.
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Goodwin Dam, located just below Tulloch, serves both as a diversion dam and a regulating reservoir for power releases from Tulloch.
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As part of the Central Valley Project ( CVP ), a federal water project that provides irrigation and municipal water to much of California's Central Valley, it was authorized in 1949 as a regulating reservoir for Folsom Dam, and a diversion pool for the Folsom South Canal.