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Shasta Dam (called Kennett Dam [3] before its construction) is a concrete arch-gravity dam [4] across the Sacramento River in Northern California in the United States. At 602 feet (183 m) high, it is the eighth-tallest dam in the United States .
Shasta Dam, with Shasta Lake at its highest level, July 1965 Shasta Division consists of a pair of large dams on the Sacramento River north of the city of Redding . [ 557 ] The Shasta Dam is the primary water storage and power generating facility of the CVP.
The Shasta County Sheriff’s Office said two children who died Thursday after falling into a river near the Shasta Dam were caught up in a rockslide near a campground.
Within the United States Department of the Interior, it oversees water resource management, specifically the oversight and/or operation of numerous diversion, delivery, and storage projects it built throughout the western United States for irrigation, flood control, water supply, and attendant hydroelectric power generation.
The children, described as juveniles, were caught in the rocks and debris that fell down a hillside around 9 a.m., downstream of the Shasta Dam, the office said in a news release. The bodies were ...
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Construction of Shasta Dam, the principal water storage facility in the Sacramento River system, started in 1938 and was completed in 1945. Controlling runoff from the upper 6,600 square miles (17,000 km 2) of the Sacramento River watershed, Shasta greatly reduces flood peaks on the middle and lower parts of the Sacramento River. Flood waters ...
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