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Lake Siskiyou is a reservoir formed by Box Canyon Dam [1] on the Sacramento River, in far northern California, near the town of Mt. Shasta, California. [2] It is the site of local recreation, as well as being used for watershed protection and flood control .
Box Canyon Dam is 1,100 feet (340 m) long and 209 feet (64 m) high. The dam is owned and operated by Siskiyou County's Flood Control & Water Conservation District and Siskiyou Power Authority, and was completed in 1965 to provide flood control. [3] In 1965, a powerhouse was installed to provide hydroelectric power. [4]
Iron Gate Reservoir was an artificial lake on the Klamath River in Siskiyou County, California, near the Oregon border of the United States. The lake's waters were impounded by the Iron Gate Dam and operated by PacifiCorp. It had an average depth of 70 feet (21.4 m). [12] Removal of the Iron Gate Dam in 2024
Lake Alan Henry The following is a list of reservoirs and lakes in the U.S. state of Texas . Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but not all.
Reservoirs in Siskiyou County, California (5 P) Pages in category "Lakes of Siskiyou County, California" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
The county is dotted as well with lakes and reservoirs, [10] such as Castle Lake and Lake Siskiyou. Mount Shasta itself has a winter sports center. Pastoral Scott Valley in the western part of the county has many wide, tree-lined meadows, supporting large cattle ranches. The basins of northeastern Siskiyou County, including Butte Valley, Lower ...
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The Siskiyou Wilderness is a federal wilderness area designated by the passage of the California Wilderness Act of 1984. Originally, the land area was 153,000 acres (620 km 2 ) [ 1 ] The Northern California Wild Heritage Act of 2006 added 30,122 acres (121.90 km 2 ) for the current total of 182,802 acres (739.77 km 2 ).