Editing Central Valley Project (section)

=== Sacramento River ===
[[File:6507-ShastaLakeFull.jpg|thumb|left|Shasta Dam, with Shasta Lake at its highest level, July 1965]]
Shasta Division consists of a pair of large dams on the [[Sacramento River]] north of the city of [[Redding, California|Redding]].<ref name="shastatrinity">{{cite web |url=http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Project.jsp?proj_Name=Shasta/Trinity%20River%20Division%20Project |title=Shasta/Trinity River Divisions |publisher=U.S. Bureau of Reclamation |work=Central Valley Project |date=2009-08-27 |access-date=2010-01-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130222212059/http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Project.jsp?proj_Name=Shasta%2FTrinity%20River%20Division%20Project |archive-date=2013-02-22 }}</ref> The [[Shasta Dam]] is the primary water storage and power generating facility of the CVP. It impounds the Sacramento River to form [[Shasta Lake]], which can store over {{convert|4500000|acre.ft|dam3}} of water, and can generate 680 MW of power.<ref name="ShastaDam">{{cite web |url=http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Facility.jsp?fac_Name=Shasta%20Dam |title=Shasta Dam |publisher=U.S. Bureau of Reclamation |work=Shasta Division |date=2009-06-04 |access-date=2010-01-16 |archive-date=September 25, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120925130228/http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Facility.jsp?fac_Name=Shasta%20Dam |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usbr.gov/power/data/sites/shasta/shasta.html |title=Shasta Powerplant |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090401081847/http://www.usbr.gov/power/data/sites/shasta/shasta.html |archive-date=April 1, 2009 }}</ref> Shasta Dam functions to regulate the flow of the Sacramento River so that downstream diversion dams and canals can capture the flow of the river more efficiently, and to prevent flooding in the [[Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta]] where many water pump facilities for San Joaquin Valley aqueducts are located.<ref name="shastatrinity"/> The [[Keswick Dam]] functions as an afterbay (regulating reservoir) for the Shasta Dam, also generating power.<ref name="Keswick">{{cite web |url=http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Facility.jsp?fac_Name=Keswick+Dam |title=Keswick Dam |publisher=U.S. Bureau of Reclamation |work=Shasta Division |date=2009-06-04 |access-date=2010-01-16 |archive-date=November 12, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111112094731/http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Facility.jsp?fac_Name=Keswick+Dam |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usbr.gov/power/data/sites/keswick/keswick.html|title=Keswick Powerplant|access-date=2009-04-14|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080503230017/http://www.usbr.gov/power/data/sites/keswick/keswick.html |archive-date = May 3, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The Sacramento Canals Division of the CVP takes water from the Sacramento River much farther downstream of the Shasta and Keswick Dams. [[Diversion dam]]s, pumping plants, and aqueducts provide municipal water supply as well as irrigation of about {{convert|100000|acre|dam2}}.<ref name="sacramentocanals">{{cite web |url=https://www.usbr.gov/projects/pdf.php?id=105|title=Sacramento River Division
|publisher=U.S. Bureau of Reclamation |work=Central Valley Project |date=1994
|access-date=2016-12-28}}</ref> The [[Red Bluff Diversion Dam]] diverts part of the Sacramento River<ref name="RedBluff">{{cite web |url=http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Facility.jsp?fac_Name=Red%20Bluff%20Diversion%20Dam |title=Red Bluff Diversion Dam |publisher=U.S. Bureau of Reclamation |work=Sacramento Canals Division |date=2009-06-04 |access-date=2010-01-16 |archive-date=September 25, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120925130055/http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Facility.jsp?fac_Name=Red%20Bluff%20Diversion%20Dam |url-status=dead }}</ref> into the {{convert|110|mi|km|adj=on}} Tehama-Colusa Canal, the {{convert|21|mi|km|adj=on}} Corning Canal and a small reservoir formed by Funks Dam.<ref name="Funks">{{cite web |url=https://www.usbr.gov/projects/index.php?id=139 |title=Funks Dam |publisher=U.S. Bureau of Reclamation |work=Sacramento Canals Division
|date=2009-06-04}}</ref>  Six pump plants take water from the canal and feed it to the [[Colusa County, California|Colusa County]] water distribution grid.<ref name="sacramentocanals"/>