Drought in the West A Photographic Essay     
Reno/Truckee Meadows
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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

Prosser Dam: 4.2015

Prosser Dam creates a reservoir out of Prosser Creek which is triburary to the Truckee River.

The area has been owned by the Prosser family since Pioneer times. Water rights are maintained for the Truckee River watershed.


A lone fisherperson casts a line out as the Prosser Reservoir surface level sinks to near-bottom.
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The overflow channel leading to the Prosser Dam spillway from Prosser Reservoir.
 
Prosser Dam Spillway has been dry all winter, 2015.
 
Where the reservoir would spill into the overflow channel.
 
In normal years the unnamed channel near the top right carries water into Prosser Reservoir.
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