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In the 2023-24 water year, the state added 4.1 million acre-feet — almost the volume of Lake Shasta — to its depleted groundwater stock by sending excess water from rivers into open spaces ...
The lake extends for 15.3 miles (24.6 km) up the Sacramento River and branches for more than 21 miles (34 km) up the Pit River, which is actually the largest river flowing into the lake. Shasta Lake also has arms of the McCloud River , Squaw Creek, Salt Creek, and scores of other smaller streams that feed it. [ 49 ]
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 US.
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?
Map of California's interconnected water system, including all eleven reservoirs over 1,000,000 acre-feet (1.2 km 3) as well as selected smaller ones.. This is a list of the largest reservoirs, or man-made lakes, in the U.S. state of California.
The Shasta Dam that crosses the river is around 600 feet tall. The water held by it forms Shasta Lake, a reservoir north of Redding. There is an ongoing investigation into what happened and how ...
Clear Creek is the first major Sacramento River tributary downstream of the Shasta Dam. [ 6 ] Clear Creek originates in the Trinity Mountains , between Shasta Lake and Trinity Lake in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest , and flows into Whiskeytown Lake reservoir, impounded by Whiskeytown Dam .
Shasta Lake, one of the state's largest reservoirs, is currently at 38% capacity, a startling number heading into the hottest months of the year.