Visited on 7/23/2017 – Picture taken on a weekend camping trip in our Truck Camper and Boat with Jeff and our dogs, Summer and Skye. We visited Thermalito Afterbay on our way home on Sunday afternoon, picture taken while traveling west of Oroville crossing the northern portion of the Afterbay on Highway 162. The Thermalito Afterbay is located about six miles west of the city of Oroville and is an offstream reservoir. The Afterbay provides storage for the water required by the pumpback operation to Lake Oroville, helps regulate the power system, produces controlled flow in the Feather River downstream from the Oroville-Thermalito facilities, and provides recreation. It also serves as a warming basin for agricultural water delivered to farms east of the Afterbay. Thermalito Afterbay Dam and facility was constructed from 1965 to 1968. The Afterbay is located at 138 feet above sea level and has a surface area that measures 4,302 acres in size.
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