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| Shasta Lake | |
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 A Sentinel-2 image of the lake | |
  Shasta Lake  Shasta Lake | |
| Location | Shasta-Trinity National Forest Shasta County, California |
| Coordinates | 40°45′37″N 122°22′19″W / 40.7602°N 122.37190°W |
| Type | Reservoir |
| Primary inflows | Sacramento River, Pit River, McCloud River |
| Primary outflows | Sacramento River |
| Basin countries | United States |
| Max. length | 35 mi (56 km) |
| Surface area | 30,000 acres (12,000 ha) |
| Max. depth | 517 ft (158 m) |
| Water volume | 4,552,000 acre⋅ft (5.615 km3) |
| Shore length1 | 365 mi (587 km) |
| Surface elevation | 1,067 ft (325 m) |
| Settlements | Lakehead |
| References | U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Lake Shasta |
| 1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. | |
Shasta Lake, also popularly known as Lake Shasta,[1] is a reservoir in Shasta County, California, United States. It began to store water in 1944[2] due to the impounding of the Sacramento River by Shasta Dam, the ninth tallest dam in the United States.[3]
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 Recreation Area, operated by the Shasta-Trinity National Forest. The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has developed a safe eating advisory for fish caught in the lake based on levels of mercury or PCBs found in local species.[6]
- ^ "Lake Shasta" Archived 2016-04-24 at the Wayback Machine; "Lake Shasta"; "Lake Shasta"; "Lake Shasta";
- ^ "California: Shasta Dam (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. Retrieved 2018-12-27.
- ^ "USSD Dam, Hydropower and Reservoir Statistics". United States Society on Dams. Archived from the original on 2014-12-29. Retrieved 2014-11-29.
- ^ "Bureau of Reclamation". www.usbr.gov. Retrieved 2018-12-27.
- ^ "Bureau of Reclamation". www.usbr.gov. Retrieved 2018-12-27.
- ^ Pham, Huyen Tran (2017-01-24). "Shasta Lake". OEHHA. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
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