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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]
Mountain Meadows Reservoir is an artificial lake, located in Lassen County, California. The lake is also known as Walker Lake . [ 3 ] Its waters are impounded by the Indian Ole Dam , which was completed in 1924 (101 years ago) ( 1924 ) .
The deepest point of the lake is only 5 ft (1.5 m) higher than the lowest point of Death Valley. The Salton Sea is about 15 by 35 miles (24 by 56 km) at its widest and longest, though it varies in dimensions and area with fluctuations in agricultural runoff and rainfall. A 2023 report puts surface area at 318 square miles. [1]
The United States features hundreds of thousands of natural and man-made lakes that provide water sources to people and wildlife. These lakes vary in surface area and depth – with some being ...
Tulainyo Lake is a freshwater alpine lake in the eastern Sierra Nevada in the U.S. state of California, and one of the highest and largest of the alpine lakes of the Sierra. It lies in a large granite bowl bounded by the Sierra Crest to the north, east, and south, at an altitude of 12,829 ft (3,910 m). [ 2 ]
Lake Elsman is a 6,200-acre-foot (7,600,000 m 3) [1] reservoir, created by an earthen dam called Austrian Dam [5] on Los Gatos Creek in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California. [2] At several points it is over 140' deep [6] and its normal surface area is 96 acres. [2] It provides 12% of San Jose Water Works’ total water capacity in some years. [6]
Map of Honey Lake watershed. The lake received its name from the honeydew produced by the abundant aphids inhabiting the area. [7]During the Pleistocene, Honey Lake and the entire Honey Lake Valley were part of Lake Lahontan in western Nevada, with a lake water level of 1,332 m (4,370 ft) [8] a level of approximately 115 m (377 ft) higher than the 1984 level of Honey Lake. [1]
The snowpack is so deep that it currently contains roughly 30 million acre-feet of water — more water than Lake Mead, the nation's largest reservoir. California's snowpack is among the deepest ever.