The community is set to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the completion of Shasta Dam, a key structure in California’s Central Valley Project. The celebration on Friday, June 20 promises a full day of events in The City of Shasta Lake. Construction of Shasta Dam began in 1938 and was completed in 1945. President Truman once referred to the dam as “symbolic of the hopes and aspirations of generations who would make the broadest, wisest uses of their natural resources.” The festivities will kick off Friday morning with a Shasta Lake business mixer at the Shasta Dam Visitors Center at 10 a.m. A celebration program will follow at 11 a.m., and an open house will start at noon. … The Bureau of Reclamation, along with the Shasta County Board of Supervisors and the Shasta BoomTown Museum, organized the event to commemorate this milestone. The Shasta Dam plays a crucial role in regulating the Sacramento River’s flow and creates the largest water storage facility in California, holding more than 4.5 million acre-feet of water.

Other dam anniversary news:

• KJCT (Grand Junction, Colo.): Celebrating the Grand River Diversion Dam’s 110 years