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May 5, 2012 SHASTA LAKE Shasta Lake holds a maximum of 4,552,000 acre-feet of water. The last time the reservoir was full was in the spring of 2012.
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Page 1: Shasta lake 2012-2016

May 5, 2012

SHASTA LAKE Shasta Lake holds a maximum of

4,552,000 acre-feet of water. The last time the reservoir was full was in the spring of 2012.

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SHASTA LAKE

May 2, 2013

Signs of severe drought in California began to appear in 2013—Shasta Lake peaked at only 3,887,430 acre-feet on April 18.

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SHASTA LAKE

March 12, 2014

And was over 1 million acre-feet lower the following spring—with a maximum storage of 2,409,395 acre-feet on April 28, 2014.

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November 17 & 25, 2014

SHASTA LAKE Lake levels continued to decline

throughout the summer, bottoming out in November at 1,046,027 acre-feet—less than one quarter full.

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May 6, 2015

SHASTA LAKE Despite a dry winter, Shasta Lake

rebounded somewhat in the spring of 2015, and hit 2,721,996 acre-feet on April 15, 2016.

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March 3, 2016

SHASTA LAKE El Niño rain and snow brought

relief in 2016—the reservoir was almost full at 4,234,824 acre-feet on May 1.