Website:https://www.usbr.gov/mp/ncao/ (Reclamation California-Great Basin Area Offices NCAO Shasta Dam)https://www.usbr.gov/mp/ncao/docs/virtual-tour.pdf (Information Document)
Description:Northern California’s Shasta Dam is a keystone of the Bureau of Reclamation’s huge Central Valley Project, which involves 35 of California's counties and two major watersheds: those of the Sacramento River on the north and the San Joaquin River on the south. Together, these watersheds extend for nearly 500 miles, feeding the heart of California’s long, flat Central Valley, one of the most fertile and productive garden spots in the world. Grown here are more than 250 varieties of crops, including the almonds, artichokes, avocados and wine grapes that make California famous for more than movie stars. Shasta Dam, dwarfed only by Hoover and Grand Coulee dams when it was completed on the Sacramento River in 1945, is breathtaking not only for its great size, but for its majestic setting in the southern range of the Cascades. The 602 foot-high, concrete, curved gravity dam holds back an immense blue reservoir, Lake Shasta, which boasts a 365-mile shoreline nestled amid evergreen hills and the snow-covered volcanic peak of Mount Shasta. - http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/ReclamationDamsIrrigationProjectsAndPowerplants/Shasta_Dam.html // 602 ft. high & 3,640 ft. long. Shasta Dam is the 2nd largest dam in the U.S. with highest center overflow-spillway in the world.
Site Condition:Construction of the dam started in 1938 and ended in 1945. It’s 602 feet high, 883 feet thick at the bottom, 30 feet thick at the top, and 3,460 feet long. The face of the dam is as big as six football fields and the spillway is the largest manmade waterfall in the world – three times the height of Niagara Falls. There are 18 outlets on the face of the dam, each big enough to drive a pickup through. Shasta Dam has the second largest mass of any dam in the United States.
General Notes:updated 5.8.24 bd
Jurisdictions::Redding, SHASTA COUNTY FILM COMMISSION - FLICS / FILM SHASTA
Within 30-Mile Zone: N
State Property: No
Closed/Vacant: No
GPS Source:Google Maps (interactive), x coordinate: 40.7139964, y coordinate: -122.4161030
Building Materials: Concrete
Contacts: Jurisich, Sabrina *Regional Film Commissioner, Film ShastaPO Box 1468, Anderson, CA 96007 USA530.710.7784 Phone 1[email protected]https://filmshasta.com/permits/
Specialist, Public Affairs *Shasta Dam, Bureau of Reclamation530-247-8530 Phone 1[email protected]
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