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New Hogan Lake is an artificial lake in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in Calaveras County, California, about 30 miles (48.3 km) northeast of Stockton. It is formed by New Hogan Dam on the Calaveras River , whose North and South forks combine just upstream of the lake, and has a capacity of 317,000 acre⋅ft (391,000,000 m 3 ).
New Hogan Lake is the only lake on the river. It is formed by New Hogan Dam, which was completed in 1963. The dam was built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, primarily for flood control. The dam also provides drinking water, water for irrigation, hydroelectricity and recreation, including fishing, camping, swimming and water skiing.
Valley Springs (formerly known as Spring Valley and Valley Spring) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Calaveras County, California, United States, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range. Valley Springs is registered as a California Historical Landmark, number 251. [3]
Big Bear Lake: Bear Valley Dam: Bear Creek: San Bernardino: Big Bear Municipal Water District: 1911: Multiple arch: 80 24: 74,000 [1] 91,000 Big Dry Creek Reservoir: Big Dry Creek Dam: Dry Creek and Dog Creek: Fresno: Fresno Metropolitan Flood Control District: 1948: Earth: 50 15: 30,200: 37,300 Big Sage Reservoir: Big Sage Dam: Rattlesnake ...
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 ).
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]
Country: United States: Location: San Joaquin County, California: Coordinates: 1]: Status: In use: Construction began: 1963; 62 years ago (): Opening date: 1964; 61 years ago (): Owner(s): East Bay Municipal Utility District: Dam and spillways; Type of dam: Earthfill: Impounds: Mokelumne River: Height: 171 ft (52 m): Length: 2,400 ft (730 m): Reservoir; Creates: Camanche Reservoir: Total ...
Streams terminating in various dry lakes in the Antelope Valley and Fremont Valley (Koehn Lake, Rosamond Lake, Rogers Dry Lake and others), draining from the southeastern Tehachapi Mountains and northern San Gabriel Mountains, listed counterclockwise starting from north: