Posted on 06/07/2023 6:18:31 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Two of California’s largest reservoirs in Northern California are near 100% capacity, and the newly-resurrected Tulare Lake in the Central Valley is near its peak size, as the spring runoff from a rainy winter continues.
Lake Shasta, which is run by the federal government, and Lake Oroville, which supplies the state water project, are at 98% and 99% of capacity, respectively. Authorities are carefully managing both to prevent overflows.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports:
Shasta Lake in Shasta County and Lake Oroville in Butte County, where much of Northern California’s water is stored, are at 98% and 99% of their total capacity, respectively, for the first time in five years, according to data from the state Department of Water Resources.
Lake Oroville, which supports 27 million Californians, has experienced water storage whiplash over the last five years — a sign of how volatile the state’s hydrology has been. The last time water storage levels neared capacity was in July 2019. By August 2021, it had hit historic lows.
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Also close to full capacity are Folsom Lake in the Sierra Nevada foothills, now at 93% of its total capacity, and Castaic Lake in Los Angeles County, at 96%.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
...all it take is ONE JUDGE to force the rivers draining the lakes to flow at double speed (assuming an upstream dam), and thus getting them back to near-empty.
Sick country we live in.
Yup. Better cut carbon emissions to make it stop raining.
Stand by to release the H2O into the pacific. STAT! LOL! There was around 720” of snow a the official measuring station in the northern Sierras this winter. We’ve been having afternoon thunderstorms nearly every day here on the east side of the mountains. Oh, and Lake Tahoe clarity is around 71+ feet now. The clearest it’s been in 40 years. Stoopid climate change............
Don’t worry the government will dump it all into the pacific as fast as they can
Yep, the climate changes, and it is perfectly normal.
Governor dipstick drained them all a couple years ago, it took less than 18 months for him to Flush over 5 years worth of water down the drain. I am betting he steps up his game and they will all be drained by July 4th NEXT YEAR!!!
I posted all the articles by Katy Grimes while it was happening
Predictions made by "experts", no doubt.
But but climate change!
Followed by Drought Amnesia and Bureaucratic Incompetence
Time to switch the story from, If we don’t do something we will never have water,” to “if we don’t do something our dams will overflow with water..”
They will be dry by the end of the year. California is not plagued by drought, but by Government Mismanagement, causing drought
You don’t understand, it was the dramatic climate action by the POTUS that filled the lakes. ROFL.
Not to worry. Those fools will have it all screwed up in no time. And stupid kommiefornians will just let them have their way. “Oh well, what can poor widdle me do?”
I wonder where all those train cars filled with explosives were going?
“Don’t worry the government will dump it all into the pacific as fast as they can”
That water is going to the ocean no matter what the government does.
All the lakes are over 95% of their total capacity. All flood gates are open. Downstream rivers are surging.
There is no alternative.
Katy Grimes is a charlatan that never even told half the story.
where I live, which is semi arid, if there's not enough snow pack or not enough rain TPTB go into crisis mode because the lack of snow pack/rain means more dryness which means more fires...
OTOH, they also complain if there's too much snow pack and too much rain, because it'll cause increased greenery which will dry eventually and that means more fires..
they swing on a pogo stick with their crisis signaling...
If the original lake is the gray area (historical perimeter), and the blue is current water, it isn't full yet.
What about the farmer's whose land is flooded?
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