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Lake Almanor is a large reservoir in northwestern Plumas County, northeastern California, United States. The reservoir has a capacity of 1,308,000 acre-feet (1.613 × 10 9 m 3 ) and a maximum depth of about 90 feet (27 meters).
Lake Almanor is a popular hunting, fishing and boating destination. The lake is home for a variety of fish and bird species, many of which make for good sport and game. Chester and the greater Lake Almanor area are home to many seasonal and year-round resorts and restaurants that cater to the locals and the summer seasonal tourists.
Most large reservoirs in California are located in the central and northern portions of the state, especially along the large and flood-prone rivers of the Central Valley. 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 ...
Thursday’s 5.5 magnitude quake, centered in the waters of Lake Almanor in northwestern Plumas County struck at 4:19 p.m., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The aftershock struck at 3:18 a ...
A map by the California Geological Survey shows faults near the Lake Almanor area in Plumas County, where a magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck Thursday, May 11, 2023, followed by a magnitude 5.2 ...
Canyon Dam (National ID # CA00327m also known as Lake Almanor Dam [1]) is an embankment dam on the North Fork Feather River in northern California, 16 mi (26 km) southwest of Westwood. Located about 8 miles (13 km) southeast of Chester, the dam forms Lake Almanor, a large and shallow reservoir surrounded by the Cascade mountains.
Get the San Francisco, CA local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days. ... N.Y. covered in snow on Friday morning after a lake-effect snow band dumped 33 inches in a 24-hour period.
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]