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The creation of Shadow Mountain Lake was authorized by the Colorado-Big Thompson bill, passed in 1937, [1] which also created the Colorado-Big Thompson Project. Water from the Grand Lake-Shadow Mountain Lake body is diverted through the Alva B. Adams tunnel , at the eastern edge of Grand Lake, into the Big Thompson River on the east side of the ...
The Salton Sea is also the largest lake in the U.S. state of California. The lake formed in 1905 which is now saline. The 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 ...
Therefore, mean depth figures are not available for many deep lakes in remote locations. [9] The average lake on Earth has the mean depth 41.8 meters (137.14 feet) [9] The Caspian Sea ranks much further down the list on mean depth, as it has a large continental shelf (significantly larger than the oceanic basin that contains its greatest depths).
Grand Lake is Colorado's largest and deepest natural lake. [5] It is located in the headwaters of the Colorado River in Grand County, Colorado. On its north shore is located the historic and eponymous town of Grand Lake. The lake was formed during the Pinedale glaciation, which occurred from 30000 BC to 10000 BC. [6]
The Colorado forms the border of California to the west and Arizona to the east for most of its course through the desert Lower Colorado River Valley (LCRV), where its character changes significantly from fast-flowing whitewater to a low gradient braided stream with a wide floodplain. Here, the Colorado River ranges in width from 700 to 2,500 ...
In 1884 and 1891 the Colorado River had escapement flow into the Salton Sink. [6] The 1891 flood created a lake that covered an area 30 mi (48 km) long and 10 mi (16 km) wide. [7] A larger 1905 Colorado flood escaped into a diversion canal, forming the Alamo and New Rivers and creating the current Salton Sea in the sink's Coachella Valley. [8]
Crater Lake is a mountain lake in the Elk Mountains, Pitkin County of the US State of Colorado. [1] It lies just northeast of the Maroon Bells and just northwest of Pyramid Peak. The view of the striated Maroon Bells from Crater Lake and the view from nearby Maroon Lake are two of the most photographed mountain scenes in the United States.
Deep Lake is a 33-acre (130,000 m 2) lake in White River National Forest, in Colorado, United States. It is the site of Deep Lake Campground. It is the site of Deep Lake Campground. Deep Creek flows through the lake.