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   From: Intelligent@savetheworldmsn.com   
      
   March 30, 2016: Lake Shasta, CA Surpasses 4 Million Acre-Feet For First Time in   
   1,376-Days:   
   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 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, 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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