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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 Visitors Center: West end of SR 151/state maintenance; road continues to a roundabout with CR A18 (Lake Boulevard), Shasta Dam Access Road, and Shasta Dam Boulevard north (closed to all but dam personnel) Shasta Lake: 3.78: CR A18 (Lake Boulevard) 6.79: Cascade Boulevard: R6.92: I-5 – Redding, Portland: Interchange; east end of SR ...
Shasta Lake is a key facility of the Central Valley Project and provides flood control for the Sacramento Valley, downstream of the dam. Water outflow generates power through the Shasta Powerplant [4] and is subsequently used for irrigation and municipal purposes. [5] The reservoir lies within the Whiskeytown–Shasta–Trinity National ...
Shasta Dam, part of the Central Valley Project, towers above the Sacramento River near Redding. (Max Whittaker/For The Times) Deciding how to manage these water systems is “among the hardest of ...
Lake Shasta, the state's largest reservoir, is full again after reaching perilously low levels in the drought-stricken years from 2019 through 2022. The satellite images below, from the NASA, show ...
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.
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 ...
The Shasta Dam that crosses the river is around 600 feet tall. The water held by it forms Shasta Lake, a reservoir north of Redding. There is an ongoing investigation into what happened and how ...