Whiskeytown Dam (officially Clair A. Hill Whiskeytown Dam)[6] is an earthfill dam on Clear Creek, a tributary of the Sacramento River of northern California in the United States.
President Kennedy speaks at the dam's dedication on September 28, 1963
The dam is located about 6 miles (9.7 km) west of Redding, and impounds Whiskeytown Lake on the southern flank of the Trinity Mountains. The dam is 282 feet (86 m) high, with a storage capacity of 241,100 acre-feet (297,400 dam3) of water.[3]
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WhiskeytownDam (officially Clair A. Hill WhiskeytownDam) is an earthfill dam on Clear Creek, a tributary of the Sacramento River of northern California...
Lake has a capacity of 241,100 acre⋅ft (297.4 Gl) and is formed by WhiskeytownDam on Clear Creek. Additional water comes from Lewiston Reservoir, supplied...
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power plant, the power plants at Trinity Dam and Lewiston Dam, the Judge Francis Carr Power plant near Whiskeytown Lake, and the Spring Creek Power plant...
Retrieved 2019-09-21. "San Vicente Dam Information". California Department of Water Resources. Retrieved 2019-09-21. "Whiskeytown Lake". Geographic Names Information...
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the largest of these is Lake Shasta, which formed behind Shasta Dam in the 1940s. The dam can impound 4.552 million acre⋅ft (1.483 trillion US gal; 5.615 trillion L)...
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Falls, under Folsom Lake Searsville, under Searsville Lake Whiskeytown, under Whiskeytown Lake Winthrop, under Lake Shasta Sopris, flooded by the creation...
the base of the Spring Creek Dam, and is actually supplied by flow from Whiskeytown Lake. The lake, formed by WhiskeytownDam, is on Clear Creek, a drainage...
intersection of Highway 299 and Carr Powerhouse Road, in the Whiskeytown district of the Whiskeytown–Shasta–Trinity National Recreation Area. Coincidental to...
(430 km2) centered on Lassen Peak, the southernmost Cascade volcano. Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area, which is over 200,000 acres...
Area Castle Lake Chapple-Shasta Off-Highway Vehicle Area. Clear Creek Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area Lewiston Lake reservoir area...
Trinity Dam is an earthfill dam on the Trinity River located about 7 miles (11 km) northeast of Weaverville, California in the United States. The dam was...
Mountains System. Lewiston reservoir is within the Trinity Unit of the Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area, in the Shasta-Trinity National...
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the fight continued until 1965, when the Cedar Grove and Tehipite Valley dam sites were finally annexed into the park. As visitation rose post–World War...
disasters happened: the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and 1928 St. Francis Dam flood remain the deadliest in U.S. history. Although air pollution has been...
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