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The McCloud River is a 77.1-mile (124.1 km) long [4] river that flows east of and parallel to the upper Sacramento River, in Siskiyou County and Shasta County in northern California in the United States.
Lake McCloud is a reservoir on the McCloud River in Northern California. [3] The lake forms behind an earthen dam finished in 1965 (60 years ago) ( 1965 ) by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company to control water flows and for generating hydro-electric power . [ 1 ]
The area is also well known for its numerous lakes, rivers, and waterfalls, including Shasta Lake, Trinity Lake, Lake Almanor, Eagle Lake, and Lake Siskiyou, the Sacramento River, McCloud River, Feather River, Trinity River, and Pit River, as well as Mossbrae Falls, the McCloud River Falls, and Burney Falls.
The lake has four major arms, each created by an approaching river: the Sacramento River, the McCloud River, Sulanharas Creek, and the Pit River. The Sacramento River's source is the Klamath Mountains. The McCloud River's source is Mount Shasta. The Pit River flows from Alturas, and the waterfall Potem Falls is located on that arm of the lake.
Shasta Lake also has arms of the McCloud River, Squaw Creek, Salt Creek, and scores of other smaller streams that feed it. [49] Shasta Dam controls runoff from a drainage basin of 6,665 square miles (17,260 km 2), [48] or about a quarter of the 27,580-square-mile (71,400 km 2) Sacramento River watershed. [50]
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McCloud is located at (41.254682, -122.136321) [7] on the southern slope of Mount Shasta, at an elevation of 3,271 feet (997 m) above sea [2]According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 2.5 square miles (6.5 km 2), of which, 2.4 square miles (6.2 km 2) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km 2) of it (2.65%) is water.
The McCloud River had an average discharge of 775 cu ft/s (21.9 m 3 /s) for the 1967–2013 period. [21] Since the 1960s, the McCloud River flow has been reduced and the Pit River flow increased due to diversion of water for hydropower generation; however the total volume of water entering Shasta Lake remains the same.