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Shasta Dam (called Kennett Dam[3] before its construction) is a concrete arch-gravity dam [4] across the Sacramento River in Northern California in the United States. At 602 feet (183 m) high, it is the eighth-tallest dam in the United States. Located at the north end of the Sacramento Valley, Shasta Dam creates Shasta Lake for long-term water ...
Shasta Lake. 1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. Shasta Lake, also popularly known as Lake Shasta, [1] is a reservoir in Shasta County, California, United States. It began to store water in 1944 [2] due to the impounding of the Sacramento River by Shasta Dam, the ninth tallest dam in the United States. [3]
Eleven reservoirs have a storage capacity greater than or equal to 1,000,000 acre-feet (1.2 km 3); all of these except one are in or on drainages that feed into the Central Valley. The largest single reservoir in California is Shasta Lake, with a full volume of more than 4,552,000 acre-feet (5.615 km 3). Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap.
Lake Shasta, the state's largest reservoir, is full again after reaching perilously low levels in the drought-stricken years from 2019 through 2022. The satellite images below, from the NASA, show ...
How Lake Shasta and Trinity Lake fared during the most recent water year and how those lakes' water supplies are shaping up now. Lake Shasta water level healthy as new water year begins. Trinity Lake?
Ancestral lands will be returned to the Shasta Indian Nation as part of a massive Klamath River dam removal project. California will help return tribal lands as part of the historic Klamath River ...
Construction of Shasta Dam, the principal water storage facility in the Sacramento River system, started in 1938 and was completed in 1945. Controlling runoff from the upper 6,600 square miles (17,000 km 2) of the Sacramento River watershed, Shasta greatly reduces flood peaks on the middle and lower parts of the Sacramento River. Flood waters ...
Shasta Dam, with Shasta Lake at its highest level, July 1965. Shasta Division consists of a pair of large dams on the Sacramento River north of the city of Redding. [557] The Shasta Dam is the primary water storage and power generating facility of the CVP.