Shasta Lake: Pine Grove
Built around settlements that supported construction of Shasta Dam, Shasta Lake grew into a residential city on the northern edge of California’s Sacramento Valley. Incorporated in 1993, it brought together communities including Central Valley, Project City, Pine Grove, Summit City and Toyon. Interstate 5 runs through this corridor just north of Redding, while the Sacramento River is impounded nearby by Shasta Dam to form Shasta Lake, California’s largest reservoir. Completed in 1945, the dam is a major part of the federal Central Valley Project, storing water and generating power. The city’s setting combines neighbourhoods, transport infrastructure and low wooded foothills near the reservoir.
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Few cities in California have a history as closely tied to the construction of Shasta Dam as Shasta Lake. The community developed beside the federal project that began in 1938 and was completed in 1945, when the dam impounded the Sacramento River to create Shasta Lake. North of Redding, the city remains closely associated with the reservoir, whose long arms reach into the forested terrain of Shasta-Trinity National Forest. Shasta Dam is a major early work of California’s Central Valley Project, built for water storage, flood control and hydropower. Continue with other webcams from the area to see how this part of Shasta County connects regionally.
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