In this article from today’s Bee, we see that the water storage facilities in California are full, and 100% of the contracted water can be delivered to agriculture, business, homes, and the environment.
That is really wonderful to hear, regardless of how close we came to serious flooding, and the minor flooding so tragic for so many, that we did see.
What would be even more wonderful is if the public leadership of the state could, returning to those infrastructure dream decades of the 1940’s, 50’s and 60’s, finish the job started then, which engineered Shasta Dam to be 200 feet higher than it is (tripling its water storage) and approved Auburn Dam; which might have allowed us to witness 100% delivery for many years, without the flood threats.
Here is an excerpt.
State's water gauge points to 'full'
Bee Metro Staff Published 2:15 am PDT Wednesday, April 19, 2006
A wet spring means state water contractors will get all the water they need this year. In fact, California has surplus water for sale.
The snowpack statewide is at 172 percent of normal, thanks to a March-April period that was the second-wettest in the northern Sierra since 1921.
On Tuesday, the state Department of Water Resources boosted its allocation to State Water Project contractors from 80 percent to 100 percent.
This marks the first time since the water project's founding in 1968 that contractors have asked for full contractual deliveries and will get those requests.
