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Lake Almanor is a large reservoir in northwestern Plumas County, northeastern California, United States. The reservoir has a capacity of 1,308,000 acre-feet (1.613 × 10 9 m 3 ) and a maximum depth of about 90 feet (27 meters).
Located southeast of Chester, Lake Almanor, formed by the 130-foot (40 m) high, 1,250-foot (380 m) long earthfill Canyon Dam (also known as Almanor Dam), is the primary storage facility for the project, with a capacity of 1,308,000 acre-feet (1.613 km 3) of water. At 28,160 acres (11,400 ha), Almanor is one of California's largest artificial ...
Canyon Dam (National ID # CA00327m also known as Lake Almanor Dam [1]) is an embankment dam on the North Fork Feather River in northern California, 16 mi (26 km) southwest of Westwood. Located about 8 miles (13 km) southeast of Chester , the dam forms Lake Almanor , a large and shallow reservoir surrounded by the Cascade mountains.
A map by the California Geological Survey shows faults near the Lake Almanor area in Plumas County, where a magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck Thursday, May 11, 2023, followed by a magnitude 5.2 ...
Thursday’s 5.5 magnitude quake, centered in the waters of Lake Almanor in northwestern Plumas County struck at 4:19 p.m., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The aftershock struck at 3:18 a ...
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. 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 ...
Lake Almanor West is located at (40.235246, -121.204180), [3] along the southwest shore of Lake Almanor It is locally referred to as "West Shore." According to the United States Census Bureau , the CDP has a total area of 2.3 square miles (6.0 km 2 ), all of it land.
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]