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The Truckee River is a river in the U.S. states of California and Nevada.The river flows northeasterly and is 121 miles (195 km) long. [3] [6] The Truckee is the sole outlet of Lake Tahoe and drains part of the high Sierra Nevada, emptying into Pyramid Lake in the Great Basin.
The Truckee Meadows is a valley in western Nevada located within the western Great Basin. Named for the Truckee River, which flows through the valley from west to east, this area contains archaeological evidence of aboriginal human occupation. [2] The Truckee Formation, is the oldest deposit of the valley and yields very little water to wells.
The Upper Truckee River is a stream that flows northward from the western slope of Red Lake Peak in Alpine County, California to Lake Tahoe via the Truckee Marsh in South Lake Tahoe, California. The river flows northeasterly and is 23 miles (37 km) long. [ 3 ]
Trout Creek is a small tributary of the Truckee River draining about 5.1 square miles (13 km 2) along the eastern crest of the Sierra Nevada.It originates east of Donner Ridge and north of Donner Lake in the Tahoe–Donner Golf Course and flows through the town of Truckee, California, to its confluence with the Truckee River in Nevada County, California, just west of Highway 267.
Pyramid Lake is fed by the Truckee River, which is mostly the outflow from Lake Tahoe. The Truckee River enters Pyramid Lake at its southern end. Pyramid Lake is an endorheic lake, with water leaving only by evaporation or sub-surface seepage. The lake has about 10% of the area of the Great Salt Lake, but it has about 25% more volume.
Upper Truckee River: flows from Red Lake Peak to South Lake Tahoe [8] 71,311 acre-feet per year (2.79 m 3 /s) Taylor Creek: dawgašašíwa heads in Fallen Leaf Lake and enters lake west of Camp Richardson [9] 30,910 acre-feet per year (1.21 m 3 /s) Tallac Creek debelelélek starts on Mount Tallac and flows north to Lake Tahoe [10] Cascade Creek
Derby Dam is a diversion dam built from 1903 to 1905 on the Truckee River, located about 20 miles (32 km) east of Reno in Storey and Washoe counties in Nevada, United States. It diverts water into the Truckee Canal [ 2 ] that would otherwise enter Pyramid Lake .
In Sparks, the Truckee River reached flood stage at 2:00 a.m. on January 1, followed by Reno at 10:30 a.m. [1] The river's flood stage was 12 feet, and it crested at 14.7 feet on January 2, breaking the last record of 13.8 in 1950. [12] [13] The river experienced widespread flooding throughout its 90-mile course between Lake Tahoe and Pyramid Lake.