The Salton Sea is the largest lake in California at around 970 square km.
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The Lake Berryessa 'Glory Hole'The spillway design chosen for Berryessa is variously called a bell-mouth, a morning glory, or — most commonly — a glory hole. According to Visit Napa Valley, it's essentially a giant concrete funnel sticking up out of the dam, 75 feet in diameter at the top and 28 feet at the base.
In California's Central Valley, a once-vibrant lake is back, and that's not necessarily a good thing. Tulare Lake used to be the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi. It was drained more than a hundred years ago and turned into farmland.
Tulare Lake, which refilled for the first time in 40 years after atmospheric river storms pummeled California with snow and rain, is now receding, but it will take at least a year to evaporate entirely, experts said.
Napa -- Emily Schwalek, 41, of Davis was killed Sunday when she was sucked” down a spillway at the Monticello Dam at Lake Berryessa. The spillway, which drops straight down more than 200 feet, is known as the Glory Hole.