Drought in the West A Photographic Essay     
Reno/Truckee Meadows
Interactive Cartograph: Clickable place names, horizontally scrollable.
Bucks Lake Whites, Thomas Creeks & Alexander Lake
Webber Lake Cold Stream/Sierraville CreekSierra Valley (Alfalfa) → Feather River (North Fork)Lake Oroville Brown, Davis & Franktown Creeks
Little Truckee River
Little Truckee River
Steamboat CreekWashoe LakeOphir Creek Tahoe Meadows
Independence LakeIndependence Creek
Davis/Davies & Merrill Creeks Lake Tahoe
Rock Lake(Upper) Price Lake
Stampede ReservoirLittle Truckee River 3Boca ReservoirLittle Truckee River 4Truckee River Donner CreekDonner Lake
Prosser CreekProsser Dam
Boca Reservoir: 2.2015
Boca Reservoir, when full: capacity = 40,901 acre feet, surface area = 3,340 acres, shoreline = 25 miles. Boca Dam (earthen, 1939) impounds the Little Truckee River after it flows out of larger and later (1970), man-made Stampede Reservoir.

Boca Reservoir was built on the site that had been created as water storage by ranch owners in the Truckee Meadows at least as early as 1900. Boca Reservoir stores water and provides fishing opportunities before emptying into the final leg of the Little Truckee River shortly before it flows into the Truckee River.

Timberlines in the distance indicate the average level of the reservoir which sports speed boats and water skiers in normal years.
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New definition of bottom feeding?
 
Boca Reservoir, Winter, 2015.
 
Dry Spillway in Winter 2015
 
Spillway to Little Truckee River just before it empties into Truckee River Winter, 2015.
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