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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). Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap.
Canyon Lake, California
List of dams and reservoirs in California
In terms of volume, the largest lake on the list is Lake Tahoe, located on the California–Nevada border. It holds roughly 36 cubic miles (150 km 3) of water. It is also the largest freshwater lake by area, at 191 sq mi (490 km 2), and the deepest lake, with a maximum depth of 1,645 feet (501 m). Among freshwater lakes entirely contained ...
Lake Arrowhead Reservoir
Canyon Lake, sometimes referenced as Railroad Canyon Reservoir, is a reservoir created in 1928 by the construction of the Railroad Canyon Dam in Railroad Canyon or (San Jacinto Canyon) in the Temescal Mountains of southwestern Riverside County, California. The reservoir covers approximately 525 acres (212 ha), has 14.9 miles (24.0 km) of ...
Ruth Reservoir (also known as Ruth Lake) is the only reservoir on California's Mad River.The reservoir and adjacent community were named for early settler Ruth McKnight. The reservoir was formed by construction of R. W. Matthews Dam in 1962 (62 years ago) () primarily for domestic and industrial water supply to Arcata, Eureka, and other communities around Humboldt B
5,036 feet (1,535 m) [1] 1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. Little Grass Valley Reservoir is an artificial lake in Plumas County, California and Plumas National Forest near the Pacific Crest Trail. The lake's waters are impounded by Little Grass Valley Dam (National ID CA00269), which was completed in 1961 (63 years ago).