Lake Oroville disappeared?

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Wow............there is no Lake Oroville right now................just the Feather river.

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No water = no fish = no fishermen = no problems.

[Natekursow]

Hopefully next year we get dumped on with rain and snow, we need it BAD!

NK

[OceanSunfish]

Hopefully next year we get dumped on with rain and snow, we need it BAD!

NK

And, "we" continuously keep asking "Mother Nature" to mitigate for corruption, mis/non-management, non-accountability, and favorable legislation for an elite few.

For added effect, Bill could have added a current picture of the Pyramid Lake in Southern California. It will look similar to the top picture.

One word describes CA's water management practices = RIGGED.

[Mr T]

Was out there 2 weeks back with the kayak. Pulled to shore over by the dam and the map on my chartplotter said I was in 165 ft of water, standing on the ground.

Its as bad as I ever recall.

[Woodman]

And, "we" continuously keep asking "Mother Nature" to mitigate for corruption, mis/non-management, non-accountability, and favorable legislation for an elite few.

For added effect, Bill could have added a current picture of the Pyramid Lake in Southern California. It will look similar to the top picture.

One word describes CA's water management practices = RIGGED.

For reference, Castaic Lake, the largest SWP reservoir in SoCal is at 33% of capacity and 40% of average. Hardly full.

[OceanSunfish]

For reference, Castaic Lake, the largest SWP reservoir in SoCal is at 33% of capacity and 40% of average. Hardly full.

For whatever it's worth, I believe Castaic is being drawn down between May and November 2021 due to modernization project.

[JayDubP]

It appears N CA is in worse shape than S CA, but guess that should be the case since N CA is the source of most of CA's water.
But no matter how you view it, there is not enough water or too many people.

Pyramid and Castaic Res have to be considered together since almost all the water from Pyramid goes by tunnel to Castaic.

Castaic is being kept low for maintenance but still if you compare the combined totals of both, the present water level is still over 60% of historical levels. Compare that to N CA's largest reservoirs: Shasta at 43%, Oroville at 24% and Folsom Lake at 36%


Link to CA Dept of Water chart for each of their reservoirs:

https://cdec.water.ca.gov/reportapp/javareports?name=RES


Jim