Buena Vista Pumping Plant


Buena Vista Pumping Plant is a water pumping plant of the California State Water Project, located 22 miles southwest of Bakersfield, within Kern County, in the San Joaquin Valley, central California.
The plant is the third pumping plant for the California Aqueduct. From Buena Vista, water flows to the Edmonston Pumping Plant, approximately southeast, before being pumped over the Tehachapi Mountains.