Flows on the Lower American are dropping?

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I've a lot more faith in Mother Nature than in Ole Man Brown...

On the local level, if you look back at storage history... Folsom Lake optimally holds around 400,000-480,000 AF this time of year. It is currently at 325,000 AF the last storm brought it up from 280,000 AF.

If this next storm is wetter than the last and all indications are that it will be... then we should see Folsom go up to at least 380,000 AF.

A couple additional, smaller events and we'll be approaching the low end of the traditionally-observed level for December in a non-drought year.

Without getting all DR. Science about it... the fact that we have gotten storms EARLIER in the winter is absolutely HUGE! especially in the light of the fact that all storms from here on out will produce snow and it is snow pack rather than rain that comprises the greatest amount of water accumulation in our reservoirs

The added, typical rains in March coupled with the melted snow runoff in the summer months should have Folsom back up to snuff in 2015.

My biggest fear is that the politicians and corporate water brokers will use their Prop 1 and 2 bill leverage to do what they want, make up for lost time (water) and take more than acceptable quotas and put us right back in the same boat the following year.