Behind Millerton Lake, there is an existing concrete structure 319 feet tall, this dam is called the Friant Dam. In the San Joaquin Valley, under the authority of the Fresno Project, Madera, Kern and Tulare; water holds and carries up to a million acres. In 1933 and throughout 1934, the state could not find enough taxpayers to purchase revenue bonds to complete the project. Fortunately, the River and Harbors Act of 1935 by the U.S. Congress was passed and funded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. On September 10, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt helped transfer $20 million from Emergency Relief Act funds to the Interior Department for the construction of Friant Dam. The following year, he signed the deed. The projected cost of the Friant Dam and Reservoir was $14 million, the Friant-Kern Canal was $26 million, and the Madera Canal was $3 million. The dam was built by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and Faint Dam was completed in 1942. The primary purpose of Friend Dam is to help regulate the flow of the San Joaquin in the available uses of its environmental impacts, wildlife and farmers. The dam controls the delivery flow of water where it requires permitting before the program can release delivery waters into canals, steam and wildlife habitat. There will be agreements and many protocols to be done beforehand to avoid unnecessary spills. There are 5 release schedules that include the amount of water available, time spent on water, flood control requirements, release schedules from the storage reservoir above Millerton Lake, and water user requirements. These benefits of flood control, storage management, modification in the Madera and Friant-Kern Canals, to prevent salt water from wiping out thousands of lands in Sacramento and throughout the San Joaquin Delta, as well as providing masses of water to farmland in 5 other San Joaquin Valley counties. Furthermore, although Friend Dam is its first major purpose; it also follows a secondary purpose. And that would be the Friend Power Authority which has 4 power plants. And inside the plants there are turbines. What this turbine does is generate water in the canal or pipes, then let it out into the four outlets that flow into its beneficial points.