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Shaver Lake is an artificial lake on Stevenson Creek, in the Sierra National Forest of Fresno County, California. At elevation 5,500 ft (1,700 m), several smaller streams also flow into the lake, and it receives water from the tunnels of Southern California Edison's Big Creek Hydroelectric Project . [ 2 ]
Shaver Lake (formerly, Musick Creek and Musick Creek Heights) [5] is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fresno County, California, United States. The population was 634 at the 2010 census, down from 705 at the 2000 census.
Bass Lake enlarged to its current dimensions. [6] 1912 The Yosemite Lumber Company constructed the steepest logging incline in history. 1913 Huntington Lake completed. [2]: 167 1919 Southern California Edison buys Shaver Lake, annexes it to the Big Creek Hydroelectric Project. [7]: 15 1922
Huntington Lake was then connected to Shaver by a tunnel. Although the elevation differential between the lakes was great – more than 1,000 feet (300 m) – no power station was installed here at the time. [21] In 1926 work began on Big Creek Powerhouse No. 2A, which would generate power from water released from Shaver Lake.
Shaver Lake/Huntington Lake. Trout 2 Kokanee 2 . Shaver guide emeritus, Dick Nichols of Dick’s Fishing Charters said, “Shaver was good for more than one limit of mixed fish this past week as ...
Call: Eastman Lake 689-3255; Valley Rod Gun, Clovis 292-3474; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Hensley Lake Hidden Dam 673-5151 Lake Don Pedro Bass 2 Trout 2 Kokanee 2 King salmon 2 Crappie 2 Catfish 3
The Fresno Flume and Irrigation Company was established in 1891 by a group of local business owners and Michigan lumbermen, C.B. Shaver and Lewis Swift. [2] The company built a dam across Stevenson Creek to form Shaver Lake, which served as both a storage pond for logs and the source of water for the flume.
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