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Lake Camanche
 Amador & Calaveras County, CA
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Max Depth: Over 150ft/46m
Average Viz: 21-25ft/6-8m
Entry Type: Boat
Bottom Composition: Sand
Aquatic Life: Might See Something
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Rating: 3.00 by 1 divers
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Lake Camanche is a boat accessible fresh water dive site, located in Amador & Calaveras County, CA. This dive site has an average rating of 3.00 out of 5 from 1 scuba divers. The maximum depth is over 150ft/46m. The average visibility is 21-25ft/6-8m.
Lake Camanche sits on the border between Amador and Calaveras Counties at the eastern edge of the California Central Valley. The Lake is named after the town of Camanche which was drowned when this water reservoir was built by the East Bay Municipal Utility District to provide water to the San Francisco Bay area in 1962. The lake is feed by the Mokelumne River with water originating in the Sierras.
The lake can be dove from the shore or from a boat. The lake is about 150 feet deep at its deepest when full. Obviously you can dive it at any depth that you like.
Camanche (originally,
Limerick; also,
Clay’s Bar)
is a former settlement in
Calaveras County,
California. It lay at an elevation of 220 feet (67
m). Once called Limerick, the town became Camanche (after
Camanche, Iowa) in 1849.
Goldmining at nearby Cat Camp, Poverty Bar, and Sand Hill brought its population to a peak of 1,500.
Mokelumne River water was brought in by
Lancha Plana and Poverty Bar Ditch. A fire on
June 21,
1873 destroyed Camanche’s large Chinatown.
Buhach, an insect powder made from a plant, was manufactured on the nearby Hill Ranch. Camanche is now inundated by
Camanche Reservoir.
The settlement is registered as
California Historical Landmark #254.
Its location is at
38°12'48?N120°56'07?W?? / 38.2133A post office was opened in Clay’s Bar in 1861 and renamed Camanche in 1864 before closing in 1886; it was re-established in 1887 and closed for good in 1962.
(My Dad was born in back room of the Post Office in 1909, the doctor keep an office there when he was in town.)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camanche,_California
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