December 13,2014
There is no more important water reservoir in California than Shasta that feeds the mighty Sacramento River. That’s why water users including in Tulare County should be cheering today as this weeks storm helped add over 380,000 acre ft of water (by Sat AM) to the dam taking total storage from about 1 million acre ft to 1.38 million in a little over a week.Buckets of rain totaling 10 inches fell over two days this week through Friday morning taking this year’s rain gauge to 28 inches as of December 11. For all of last water year the dam received under 35 inches of precip. If Shasta does not have enough water, like last year, Friant districts here have to save their water above Fresno for the Exchange Contractors leaving us at “zero allocation.”
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