Water in California
Videos
California's interconnected water system serves almost 40 million people and irrigates over 5,680,000 acres of farmland. As the world's largest, most productive, and potentially most controversial wat
Windmill used to pump water for irrigation, Compton, ca. 1900–1901
Castle Lake, part of the headwaters of the Sacramento River
Major rivers of California
A canal irrigating citrus ranches in Fresno County, 1970s
Shasta Dam
Videos
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 n
Shasta Dam in 2017
The Pit River Valley, now under Shasta Lake, in 1941. The bridge visible near the bottom once carried U.S. Route 99 before it was replaced by the Pit River Bridge (from the deck of which this photo was taken).
The old mining town of Kennett, being inundated by the rising waters of Shasta Lake c. 1944
The Pit River Bridge, which was built to carry Interstate 5 and the Southern Pacific Railroad over Shasta