Pyramid lake water level

OU812 · Post by **OU812** » Sun Aug 17, 2014 1:56 pm

With all the talk of drought, pics of Lake Mead, Shasta et al, on a recent trip to So. Cal. I was surprised to see Pyramid Lake totally FULL, higher than I have ever seen it . What is up with that?

tankyota · Post by **tankyota** » Sun Aug 17, 2014 5:04 pm

Pyramid gets aqueduct water. They can fill it anytime they want. So does Castaic.

scottsweet · Post by **scottsweet** » Sun Aug 17, 2014 7:10 pm

Pyramid hasn't gotten aqueduct water in some time, nor has Castaic.

Water is recirculated from Elderberry (reservoir above Castaic main lake). It is always full for multiple reasons, one being power. If you have noticed as you are entering the lake, the small power plant to the right. There are always eddies as the water enters in to the lake.

mark poulson · Post by **mark poulson** » Mon Aug 18, 2014 12:54 pm

scottsweet wrote:Pyramid hasn't gotten aqueduct water in some time, nor has Castaic.

Water is recirculated from Elderberry (reservoir above Castaic main lake). It is always full for multiple reasons, one being power. If you have noticed as you are entering the lake, the small power plant to the right. There are always eddies as the water enters in to the lake.

Scott,
Does the water coming up back up from Castaic come all the way up to that power station next to the entry road?

mark poulson · Post by **mark poulson** » Thu Aug 21, 2014 7:53 am

The power to pump water back up to Pyramid from Castaic costs DWP too much to just do it for fun, so that's why they used to release water down to Castaic during the week, when the price they got for the power they generated was high, and then pump it back up on the weekends when power was cheaper.
Now the water is rising during the week at Pyramid, so the new water is not coming up from Castaic.
Where is it coming from?