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Oct 5, 2008 3:45 pm US/Pacific

Drought Reveals Lost Artifacts In Lake Shasta

LAKEHEAD (AP) ―

Click to enlarge 1 of 1: Lake Shasta at a high water level.
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While California struggles with a statewide drought, history buffs are finding some solace in the array of relics emerging in Lake Shasta as water levels plummet.

The receding waters have revealed old bridges, train trestles, tunnels and the foundations of towns drowned when the dam that created the lake was completed in 1945.

At a marina in Lakehead on the north edge of the lake, visitors last week used an old highway bridge as a makeshift low-water boat ramp.

The waters of Lake Shasta have dropped to 150 feet below the high-water mark, the lowest level in 16 years.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared the drought in June because of two years of below-average rainfall, low snowmelt runoff and shrinking reservoir levels.