Shasta Dam

Local nameShasta Dam
LocationCalifornia, United States

Shasta Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam across the Sacramento River in Northern California in the United States. At 602 feet high, it is the eighth-tallest dam in the United States. Located at the north end of the Sacramento Valley, Shasta Dam creates Shasta Lake for long-term water storage, flood control, hydroelectricity and protection against the intrusion of saline water. The largest reservoir in the state, Shasta Lake can hold about 4,500,000 acre-feet.Envisioned as early as 1919 as an effort to conserve, control, store, and distribute water to the Central Valley, California's…

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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shasta_Dam

Address Shasta Dm, 96003, United States

Coordinates 40°43'5.92" N -122°25'10.866" E

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