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The reservoir is in the Eldorado National Forest at an elevation of 3,900 feet (1,200 m). The 141,900 acre-foot (175,000,000 m 3) reservoir is formed by Salt Springs Dam on the North Fork of the Mokelumne River. The concrete-faced rock-fill dam is 332 feet (101 m) tall and was completed in 1931 (94 years ago) ().
Lake type: Reservoir: Primary outflows: Mokelumne River: Catchment area: 169 sq mi (440 km 2) Basin countries: United States: Surface area: 975 acres (395 ha) Water volume: 10,900 acre⋅ft (13,400,000 m 3) Surface elevation: 328 m (1,076 ft) References: U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Salt Spring Valley Reservoir
The reservoir is in the El Dorado National Forest at an elevation of 3,900 feet (1,200 m). The 141,900 acre foot (175,000,000 m3) reservoir is formed by Salt Springs Dam on the North Fork of the Mokelumne River. The concrete-faced rock-fill dam is 332 feet (101 m) tall and was completed in 1931.
The state has more than one thousand major reservoirs, of which the largest two hundred have a combined capacity of over 41,000,000 acre-feet (51 km 3). [1] Most large reservoirs in California are located in the central and northern portions of the state, especially along the large and flood-prone rivers of the Central Valley.
Salt Springs Reservoir: Salt Springs Dam: Mokelumne River, North Fork: Amador and Calaveras: ... State of California. Archived from the original on April 11, 2009
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Salt Spring Valley Reservoir; ... Spreckels Lake; Spring Creek Reservoir (California)
Lake Tahoe is the second deepest lake in the U.S. In terms of area covered, the largest lake in California is the Salton Sea, a lake formed in 1905 which is now saline.It occupies 376 square miles (970 km 2) in the southeast corner of the state, but because it is shallow it only holds about 7.5 million acre⋅ft (2.4 trillion US gal; 9.3 trillion L) of water. [2]
The Salt Springs State Game Refuge is located along the Mokelumne River near Salt Springs Reservoir. There are also significant private holdings in the upper basin including commercial timber land and protected watershed areas administered by the East Bay Municipal Utility District, which diverts urban and industrial water from Pardee Reservoir.