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Dossier #141 · GRanD 170

Lake Tahoe

🇺🇸United States · Truckee River River

Built 1913 · Lake Control Dam · data quality: Good

Irrigation
Reservoir outline · simplified

Specifications

Height
6 m
Crest length
579 m
Reservoir capacity
902.9 MCM
Reservoir area
496 km²
Average depth
1.8 m
Catchment
1,299 km²
Avg discharge
18,851 L/s
Elevation
1,895 masl
Degree of regulation
151.9 %

Notes

Built 1913

Provenance

Record 141 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 39.1610, -120.1418.