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Collins Lake, impounded by Virginia Ranch Dam, is a freshwater man-made lake with 1,009 acres (4.08 km 2) located in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains north of Sacramento, California. [1] The lake was originally created to provide additional irrigation water to Browns Valley and Loma Rica .
This is a list of the largest reservoirs, or man-made lakes, in the U.S. state of California. All fifty-three reservoirs that contain over 100,000 acre-feet (0.12 km 3) of water at maximum capacity are listed. This includes those formed by raising the level of natural lakes, such as at Lake Tahoe.
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]
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Marysville is a city and the county seat of Yuba County, California, located in the Gold Country region of Northern California. As of the 2010 United States Census , the population was 12,072, reflecting a decrease of 196 from the 12,268 counted in the 2000 Census .