Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Monticello Dam" in English language version.
It was in that year, 1956, that photographers Dorothea Lange and Pirkle Jones were hired by Life magazine to do a photo study of the last year of the Berryessa Valley. Life never ran the photo essay, but Aperture magazine published their "Death of a Valley" in 1960.
It was initially designed to irrigate approximately 96,000 acres of farmland. However, as of 1992, only 71,445 acres were irrigable under the Solano Project, and of that, only 59,378 were actually being irrigated.