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   From: Intelligent@savetheworldmsn.com   
      
   https://snowbrains.com/lake-shasta-ca-surpasses-4-million-acre-f   
   et-for-first-time-in-1376-days/   
      
   5 years later, now on verge of drought.  The dam could be raised 200 feet,   
   allowing for 10 million more acre feet storage.  Or damn the Eel or Klamath   
   rivers, both of which run into the sea.  Or revive the potentially polluting   
   peripheral canal.  Or all four.  The farmers utilize 80% of the State's water   
   capacity, and the consumer utilize 20% of it.  The Federal Water project is for   
   the farmers, and has runoff for the State consumer water project.  The Army   
   Corps   
   of Engineers builds the Federal Damns which last, like the Hoover Damn, and   
   hold,   
   unlike the State's damns, which though newer, required evacuation of 100,000   
   residents in recent years.   
      
   Current situation:   
   "Shasta Lake is California's largest reservoir, capable of holding 4,552,000   
   acre   
   feet of water.  Right now, it has 1,186,057 acre feet of water stored.    
   Breaking   
   that down into percentages, the reservoir is at 26% capacity and 42% of average   
   for this date."   
   September 7, 2021   
      
   https://www.abc10.com/article/weather/california-drought/reservo   
   r-levels-california/103-a3f855d0-98ba-4597-b334-b30086c50cb6#:~:   
   ext=Shasta%20Lake%20is%20California's%20largest,of%20average%20f   
   r%20this%20date.   
      
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