Posted on 03/14/2016 5:32:01 PM PDT by george76
A series of storms pushed Californias biggest reservoir past its historical average for mid-March this weekend and put the second largest one on track for doing the same by Monday afternoon, officials said.
Together the Lake Shasta and Lake Oroville reservoirs have the capacity to hold more than 8 million acre feet of water and after a wet weekend in Northern California, they were 79% and 70% full, respectively
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According to the National Weather Service, it rained nearly a foot in El Dorado County and more than nine inches in Shasta County between Friday and Monday mornings. Since March 1, the Shasta reservoir has received more than 16 inches of rain.
On March 6, Lake Oroville saw its biggest single-day rise in 12 years
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Its not ENOUGH rain, though.
This El Nino has been a dud.
So far its only an average year, not the sort of once every two decades soaking that will do things like replenish the water table.
“This El Nino has been a dud.”
True. There were no week long torrents as there often are.
We raise a batch of crappies hereabouts...
Rain and snow in March. It’s a miracle!!! /s
The city of Alma was flooded and is now completely under water...
Thank you Jesus!
That an a desalination plant or two...
I wish some of this rain would head for SoCal.
Nothing like fresh caught crappie and sunfish, bluegill, panfish,pumpkinseed, whatever.... Ummyummy
Used to fry em up in butter .. Tender fillets Im drooling as I type this
Not a single new reservoir but millions of immigrants.
will they now pour it into the Pacific to save the Smelt?
Gonna be a good year for trout fishing!
The big problem is that during this whole drought, they have not built any additional storage capacity. So a lot of the runoff from the storms is just flowing out to sea. Unless and until they add a lot of reservoirs and underground storage, the drought will just come back in the first dry year.
During the California drought of 1976 77 the Dooms Day crowd was claiming it would take at least two years to fill Lake Shasta. Once the snow and rain started the lake was spilling by early summer. We don’t have water shortage we have a lack of storage. Humboldt county rainfall is at least 30% above average and Ruth Lake has been spilling since Dec
Yeah!
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