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Eleven reservoirs have a storage capacity greater than or equal to 1,000,000 acre-feet (1.2 km 3); all of these except one are in or on drainages that feed into the Central Valley. The largest single reservoir in California is Shasta Lake, with a full volume of more than 4,552,000 acre-feet (5.615 km 3).
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in California in a sortable table. There are over 1,400 named dams and 1,300 named reservoirs in the state of California.
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]
Here’s the status of California’s 17 major reservoirs as of midnight on Thursday, April 9, according to data from the California Department of Water Resources: Shasta Lake - Shasta County ...
Drone footage shot by storm chaser Brandon Clement showed the improvement in water level and snowpack in places such as Folson Lake, Lake Oroville and Donner Pass, since last summer.
"We're experiencing consecutive dry years with above normal temperatures and that's led to low reservoir levels and parched soils," said Robert Cervantes with the Division of Water Rights.
In 1966, a bid for constructing the concrete-lined, compacted-earth reservoir was given to Aetron, a subsidiary of Aerojet. [4] [5] [6] The reservoir started being filled in 1970. [7] A 1989 plan to cover the reservoir and others to prevent contamination met local opposition. Area residents believed the cover would attract vandals and be an ...
With capacity levels in the 80 percentile, Folsom Lake is at 114% of its historical average, Shasta Lake is at 113% and New Melones Lake is at 133%. All three reservoirs are operated by the ...