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Is The Great California Drought Finally Ending?

/in /by /Los Angeles Timesby Bettina Boxall

The state’s biggest reservoirs are swelling. The Sierra Nevada have seen as much snow, sleet, hail and rain as during the wettest years on record. Rainy Los Angeles feels more like London than Southern California. So is the great California drought finally calling it quits? Yes. Or at least maybe. If the storm systems keep coming, state and regional water managers say, 2017 could be the end of a dry spell that has, for more than five years, caused crops to wither, reservoirs to run dry and homeowners to rip out their lawns and plant cactus.

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OPINION: Raging Streams Give Argument For Sites

/in /by /Record Searchlight (Redding, Calif.)

Watching all the water raging in area streams, creeks and rivers, pounding over waterfalls and spilling out of Shasta Dam is a welcome sight after years of drought in Northern California. As an atmospheric river brings feet of snow to the mountains and more rain than the valley has seen in years, the Bureau of Reclamation has opened the floodgates, so to speak, and upped flows from Shasta and Keswick dams to clear out room as it expects even more water to pour into the lake.

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Life Without Water Or … Why The Delta Tunnel Is So Critical To LA

/in /by /City Watch (Los Angeles, Calif.)by Tony Butka

After the recent defeat of Proposition 53, a Howard Jarvis backed initiative aimed squarely at Jerry Brown’s Delta Tunnel project (aka WaterFix), matters are moving forward with the project. The CEQA challenges are now finished, and the resulting a 100,000 page document (I kid you not) is on the Governor’s desk. As General Manager of the Metropolitan Water District, Jeffrey Knightlinger quipped at our DWP meeting that the stack of paper is about 40 feet high, roughly the same as the diameter of the Delta tunnels (irony intended).

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San Diego, Water Authority Eye Up To 500-Megawatt Pumped Storage Project

/in /by /American Public Power Associationby Paul Ciampoli Mentioned: San Diego County Water Authority

The San Diego County Water Authority and the city of San Diego on Jan. 5 said they were considering a new pumped storage opportunity at an existing reservoir site. The potential project would create a new, up to 500-megawatt source of renewable energy that could provide electric grid stability to the region during peak times for energy use or other days when demand for electricity is high and renewable energy supplies are scarce, the water authority said in a news release.

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After Week Of Storms, Mammoth Mountain Has More Snow Than Any Other Ski Resort In The Country

/in /by /KTLA5 (Los Angeles, Calif.)by Melissa Pamer and Rick Chambers

After more than a week of snow storms in the Sierra Nevada, Mammoth Mountain has more snow than another ski resort in the country.The popular mountain about five hours north of Los Angeles announced Wednesday that it had the deepest base of snow in North America after receiving 10 to 15 feet of snow since the previous Wednesday. Another foot of snow fell by Thursday morning.

 

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California May Finally Be Coming Out Of This Horrendous Drought — But It’ll Be Back

/in /by /Business Insider (New York)by Erin Brodwin

Ah, California: state of glistening swimming pools, gushing water fountains, and drenched backyard slip-n-slides. Well, not so much, at least for the past five years. Since 2012, the golden state has been stuck in a seemingly never-ending drought that some experts have said is the worst the state has seen in 1,200 years. For the past five years, dwindling reservoirs, shrinking lakes, and dried-up farm fields have dotted the terrain.

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Lost Slough Levee Breaks, But Gets Patched Up For Now

/in /by /The Sacramento Beeby Dale Kasler, Ryan Sabalow and Cathy Locke

A levee partially broke late Thursday in the Delta region of south Sacramento County, but officials said the problem was mostly patched up by nightfall. After days of rain and high flows along the Sacramento River, a hole emerged on a levee at Lost Slough, near I-5 in the vicinity of the Cosumnes River Preserve.

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VIDEO: DWR ‘War Room’ Keeping Close Eye On Waterways

/in /by /KCRA (Sacramento, Calif.)

The surge of water from this week’s storms is being closely monitored by California water officials from their hub in Sacramento.

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Snowfall From 67% To 161%: Huge Shift In California Drought

/in /by /The Associated Press (As published by US News & World Report)by Ellen Knickmeyer

Recent storms bearing some of the heaviest snow and rain to hit Northern California in decades have helped bring a dramatic turnaround after more than five years of drought, which covered the state just a year ago.

 

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Russian River Receding, Flood Recovery Could Cost Sonoma County Millions

/in /by /The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, Calif.)by Paul Payne and Derek Moore

Floodwaters from a storm-swollen Russian River finally started receding Thursday evening, allowing residents forced from their homes to begin the painstaking and messy task of cleaning up and repairing damages. “The water’s going down,” Monte Rio Fire Chief Steve Baxman said. “Now comes the work.” Amid scattered showers, the Russian River finally began dropping below flood stage of 32 feet at 5 p.m. It is expected to continue dropping over coming days, draining low-lying areas around Guerneville and elsewhere that had been swamped with floodwaters.

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