DAILY DIGEST, 4th of July edition: Plans advance to enlarge major Bay Area reservoir; California’s lakes are full but fishing remains in a drought; LA DWP won’t drill new wells in Bishop; and more ….
In California water news today, Plans advance to enlarge major Bay Area reservoir; California’s lakes are full but fishing remains in a drought; Human toll mounts in California’s rivers after boy drowns, man disappears, and two bodies are found; Marin officially puts drenching year in the record books; Owens Valley: LA DWP won’t drill new wells in Bishop; New Mexico water agency finds innovative way to protect headwaters Happy 4th of July!
The plan would raise the reservoir’s earthen dam by 55 feet, to 273 feet high.
That would make it the second tallest dam in the Bay Area, eclipsed only by Warm Springs Dam, at 319 feet tall, on Lake Sonoma near Healdsburg.
… ” Read more from the San Jose Mercury News here: Plans advance to enlarge major Bay Area reservoir California’s lakes are full but fishing remains in a drought: “As he prepared to launch his fishing boat from the dock at Castaic Lake, longtime angler Dan Curtis recalled conditions two years earlier when the state’s worst drought shriveled the reservoir to nearly a third of its total capacity.
The lake is now near capacity, but below the surface of the water, not everything has returned to normal.
First responders and law enforcement agencies in the state’s low-lying communities have been sounding the alarm for months that as the state transitioned into spring and now summer, the historic snowpack in the Sierra Nevada was going to melt and create deadly conditions downstream.
As of midnight Friday, the Marin Municipal Water District counted 95.95 inches of rain in the Mount Tamalpais watershed for 2016-17.
… ” Read more from the Marin Independent Journal here: Marin officially puts drenching year in the record books Owens Valley: LA DWP won’t drill new wells in Bishop: “The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) today announced its decision to cancel plans to drill two new wells located in the West Bishop area.
“This is a huge deal,” said John Fleck, director of the University of New Mexico Water Resources Program.