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This is a list of the largest reservoirs, or man-made lakes, in the U.S. state of California. All fifty-three reservoirs that contain over 100,000 acre-feet (0.12 km 3) of water at maximum capacity are listed. This includes those formed by raising the level of natural lakes, such as at Lake Tahoe.
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]
Coney sold the land to California State Parks in 1969, and it became a state park in 1971. The lake is formed by a dam constructed in the 1950s. Originally the overflow drained to a gully during the winter months, but in 2003, the state spent almost US$400,000 building a spillway and release valve to reduce downstream erosion. During the winter ...
Lake Chabot (/ ʃ ə ˈ b oʊ /) is a man-made lake covering 317 acres (1.3 km 2) in Alameda County, California, United States. Part of the lake lies within Oakland city limits, but most of it lies in unincorporated Castro Valley, just east of San Leandro. It was formed by the damming of San Leandro Creek.
Lake Perris is an artificial lake completed in 1973. [1] It is the southern terminus of the California State Water Project, situated in a mountain-rimmed valley between Moreno Valley and Perris, in what is now the Lake Perris State Recreation Area. The park offers a variety of recreational activities.
The proposed $4.5 billion Sites Reservoir on ranch lands in Glenn and Colusa counties would be California’s first major reservoir in nearly 50 years. It is designed to capture more water from ...
Situated in the San Andreas Rift Zone [2] along the north side of State Route 138, it is a regulatory storage body for the West Branch California Aqueduct. The community of Centennial is a proposed 12,323-acre (49.87 km 2) master-planned community that will be built on a portion of Tejon Ranch to the northeast of the lake.
The State Park and Recreation Commission officially declared its 1,785 acres a park. The property has its own state-sponsored webpage and a budget for conservation and maintenance. What it does ...