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This is a list of the largest reservoirs, or man-made lakes, in the U.S. state of California. All fifty-three reservoirs that contain over 100,000 acre-feet (0.12 km 3) of water at maximum capacity are listed. This includes those formed by raising the level of natural lakes, such as at Lake Tahoe.
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in California in a sortable table. ... City and County of San Francisco: 1956: Earth and rock: 315 96: 273,500: 337,400
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]
California reservoir levels stand at 116% of the average, according to the release. ... Approximately 903,000 people remained in drought areas in August. California’s drought status as of April ...
Mammoth Pool Reservoir; Mary Lake (California) Lake Mathews; Lake McCloud; Meadow Lake, Nevada County, California; Lake Mendocino; Lake Merced; Miller/Knox Lagoon; Millerton Lake; Lake Ming; Miramar Reservoir; Lake Mission Viejo; Morris Reservoir; Mountain Meadows Reservoir; Lake Murray (California)
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After reaching perilously low levels, California's major reservoirs filled up last winter. Now they stand at about two-thirds capacity with more rain on the horizon.
The image below shows Lake Oroville in Butte County, California's second-biggest reservoir. The first image was taken Dec. 21. The second image was taken Jan. 12, after several storms had begun to ...