POC and ACC Operations

Day-to-day operations are normally handled by five Area Control Centers, one in each of the five field divisions—Oroville, Delta, San Luis, San Joaquin, and Southern— that are responsible for the facilities within their geographic boundaries.

Each field division can remotely operate and monitor the major facilities within their jurisdictions. These include startup or shutdown of pumping and generating units, and opening or closing of radial gates that control the flow of water through the California Aqueduct and South Bay Aqueduct or valves that so the same function in the underground pipeline systems of the North Bay Aqueduct and Coastal Branch.