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Shasta Dam (called Kennett Dam [3] before its construction) is a concrete arch-gravity dam [4] across the Sacramento River in Northern California in the United States. At 602 feet (183 m) high, it is the eighth-tallest dam in the United States .
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 United States.
The reservoir contains 30,000 acres (12,000 ha), and holds 4,550,000 acre-feet (5,610 Gl) of water. Shasta Lake is formed by Shasta Dam, which is the second largest (after Grand Coulee Dam) and second tallest (after Hoover Dam) concrete dam in the United States.
The Shasta Dam that crosses the river is around 600 feet tall. The water held by it forms Shasta Lake, a reservoir north of Redding. There is an ongoing investigation into what happened and how ...
SR 151 begins at Shasta Dam, where the Sacramento River is dammed to form Shasta Lake.State maintenance specifically begins at the visitor center located south of the dam (the segment of Shasta Dam Boulevard that runs directly to and across the top of the dam is closed to the general public).
Lake Shasta, the state's largest reservoir, is full again after reaching perilously low levels in the drought-stricken years from 2019 through 2022. The satellite images below, from the NASA, show ...
Gov. Gavin Newsom has set in motion the return of ancestral lands to the Shasta Indian Nation that were seized a century ago and submerged. ... The Iron Gate Dam in Hornbrook, Calif., is among ...
Reservoir Dam River County Owner Completed Type Height of dam [a] Reservoir capacity (ft) (m) (acre ft) (1,000 m 3) ; Almaden Reservoir: Almaden Dam: Alamitos Creek