[LucyT]

Megadrought Could Force California’s Lake Oroville Hydroelectric Power Plant To Shut Down

Nation & State ^ | 6-19-2021

One of California’s most critical hydroelectric plants is at risk of closing for the first time in five decades as water levels continue to sink. A megadrought and scorching heat, both worsened by La Nina weather effects, have depleted some of the water supply at Northern California’s Lake Oroville.

The lake’s current water levels are hoovering around 700 feet above sea level, but if 640 feet is breached, then officials “will likely be forced to close the Edward Hyatt Power Plant for the first time since it opened in 1967,” California Energy Commission spokesperson Lindsay Buckley told CNN. The lake’s...

https://www.nationandstate.com/2021/06/19/megadrought-could-force-californias-lake-oroville-hydroelectric-power-plant-to-shut-down/

[rodguy911]

Gee I wonder who has been running California for the last 20 years or so? Fires,open borders,crime,people living on the streets,dams failing,law and order abandoned, it's a disaster area. You would think those people would wake up but instead they all move to Texas.