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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.
The City of Shasta Lake, known as Central Valley or CV prior to incorporation, is a city in Shasta County, California, United States. It is the closest settlement to Shasta Dam and Shasta Lake reservoir, which are popular tourist destinations. Its population is 10,371 as of the 2020 census, up from 10,164 from the 2010 census.
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Lake Oroville flowed over the emergency spillway for the first time in 48 years, after the main spillway was damaged resulting in the temporary evacuation of 200,000 people. [19] The combined inflow to Shasta, Oroville and Folsom Lakes on February 9 was 764,445 acre-feet (0.942929 km 3 ).
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Prior to the major storms, reservoirs were able to reduce storage and regain flood reservation space based on forecasts and operations. However, the intense storms around New Year's Day quickly filled these reservoirs near capacity, necessitating increased downstream releases and setting new peak flow records into Lake Shasta and Lake Oroville. [3]
On May 7, the lake was at 114% of its historical average level. The so-called bathtub ring that clearly outlined the lake in 2022 — so stark it was visible from space — had disappeared by 2024.