Here comes the snow pack.

[Kevin Burroughs]

Don Pedro May 8 5948 cfs May 18 14533 cfs

New Melones May 8 3939 cfs May 18 9039 cfs

McClure May 8 3621 cfs May 18 10286 cfs

Melones is coming up a foot a day and has lots of room

Don Pedro is looking good they have it pulled down because of the big snow pack

McClure is drawn down 80 feet but there is concern with the huge snow pack. It is half the size of Pedro and a huge drainage.

Not much more room in the rivers below McClure and Pedro. The Tuolumne is at warning stage at 11,000 cfs. The Merced is about 6000 cfs

There is still 200% of snowpack in the mountains.

 

[dakinunit]

They had to cancel the Jr fishing derby up on the susan river this weekend,water to high and running hard don't want kids to drown.

 

[tule]

Surprised that the state hasnt built another aquaduct at the base of the Western slope of the Sierras to divert all that water into LA, kinda like what happened on the Eastern slope from Bishop south.

 

[Phytoplankton]

Drove by lake Shasta a couple days ago, it was completely full, the bushes along the shoreline were touching the water. Mt. Shasta was loaded with snow.

 

[Kevin Burroughs]

Surprised that the state hasnt built another aquaduct at the base of the Western slope of the Sierras to divert all that water into LA, kinda like what happened on the Eastern slope from Bishop south.

They don't have anyplace to store it. Everything is full. the state is too stupid to build reservoirs to catch excess runoff. They spent the money on a bullet train to nowhere.

 

[CA Birdman]

Well the rice fields are taking a chunk of the water out of Shasta and Oroville. Shasta, Oroville and Folsom are all at high 90% of capacity. Definitely would be nice if had Sites Reservoir to stick a couple million acre feet of water but as KB said instead we have a train to nowhere.

 

[hunt'ngreen]

Shasta is 3.31' from full table , releasing 9,305 cfs., Oroville is at 9.67' from full table, releasing 18,857 cfs., it's actually gone down .12' as said, serious amounts going to rice, western canal is as full as it can be... ran to Sac. airport Monday, most all fields are wet, with some rice coming up around Dingerville.

 

[RefugeHunter]

Surprised that the state hasnt built another aquaduct at the base of the Western slope of the Sierras to divert all that water into LA, kinda like what happened on the Eastern slope from Bishop south.

That's what the delta is for.

 

[tule]

That's what the delta is for.

No, I mean........like literally at the base of the Sierras. Run it all the way down to Bakersfield.

 

[CA Birdman]

Was up around Colusa this weekend, lots of rice planted, lots of fields in flood up, rice is still taking water. Crop duster was loading about 1/2 mile south of where I was training the pup.