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Water Levels Rise on Shasta Lake

After four years of shrinking due to drought, the largest reservoir in California got a much-needed boost from El Niño-fueled winter precipitation.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and water level data from the California Department of Water Resources. Caption by Michael Carlowicz.

Published April 7, 2016
Data acquired April 13, 2015 - March 30, 2016

Source:
Landsat 8 > OLI