Lake Oroville Community Update - Aug 6

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Lake Oroville Community Update - Aug 6

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Climate change-induced early warm temperatures and extremely dry soils dramatically reduced expected runoff into rivers and reservoirs this spring. Combined with the past two years being the driest two-year period since 1976-1977, water levels at Lake Oroville reached historic lows this past week, falling below the previous low water elevation of 645 feet set in September 1977. Water elevations as low as 620 feet above sea level are forecasted for late October.

You can read more about this in the Lake Oroville Community update here: https://water.ca.gov/News/Blog/2021/Aug ... ate-8-6-21
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Re: Lake Oroville Community Update - Aug 6

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This is a DAMN shame !!! We can't change the weather and produce more rain, but we, meaning our fearless leaders, sure could have implemented more secondary Dams be built to hold additional water !!! Now just might be the best time to start building them since we wouldn't have to drain the lakes too do so !!! Maybe e can ship some on the Bullet Train !!!!
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Re: Lake Oroville Community Update - Aug 6

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The average decrease in elevation between August 1 and the low point in pool between 2014-2018 was 65 feet. Based on these numbers, the reservoir will bottom out at 575 far less than noted in article. I don't know who they are fooling, unless the turn the spigot completely off.
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