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Shasta Dam aerial view, 1945 Inside the Shasta Dam powerhouse Shasta Dam serves mainly to provide flood control and carryover water storage for the dry season, contributing greatly to irrigation in the Sacramento Valley and navigation on the Sacramento River, as well as keeping freshwater levels in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta high enough ...
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Construction of Shasta Dam, the principal water storage facility in the Sacramento River system, started in 1938 and was completed in 1945. Controlling runoff from the upper 6,600 square miles (17,000 km 2) of the Sacramento River watershed, Shasta greatly reduces flood peaks on the middle and lower parts of the Sacramento River. Flood waters ...
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 ...
Lake Shasta, shown above, is California's largest reservoir. On Nov. 19, when the first photo was taken, it sat at 31% of capacity, according to the California Department of Water Resources .
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Lake Siskiyou is a reservoir formed by Box Canyon Dam [1] on the Sacramento River, in far northern California, near the town of Mt. Shasta, California. [2] It is the site of local recreation, as well as being used for watershed protection and flood control. Satellite view
Shasta Lake is a key facility of the Central Valley Project and provides flood control for the Sacramento Valley downstream of the dam. Water outflow generates power through the Shasta Powerplant [4] and is subsequently used for irrigation and municipal purposes. [5] The reservoir lies within the Whiskeytown–Shasta–Trinity National ...