Posted on 04/30/2010 1:22:49 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Sacramento, Calif. (AP) -- State water managers say a series of late-season storms might allow them to deliver more water than expected to California's cities and farms.
The Department of Water Resources released its final snow survey of the season on Friday. The state's snowpack has grown to 143 percent of normal for this time of year across the 400-mile-long Sierra Nevada.
The department had estimated that it will be able to deliver water contractors 30 percent of their requests. The department's director, Mark Cowin, says the latest snowpack measurements could allow the department to increase that allocation.
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30% of the request isn’t much...Is the drought over?
Thanks, El Nino. Keep it coming.
Hopefully, this will mean more water for the valley farmers and suburbanites to buy their products.
Too bad we didn’t built more storage reservoirs and such while the weather was dry... but look who was running Sacramento... No surprise.
Technically, maybe .. with the coming growth, any relief we have is temporary.
Sure has been a rainy year...
Coming growth? Where?
It’s an inside joke. (shhhh) ;-)
Maybe if they weren’t dumping 90% of the water into the Bay to save the Delta smelt it wouldn’t have been a problem.
There is no drought, it’s a man made dust bowl courtesy of the Greens.
since when did fish vote and pay taxes *-?
Sure has been a rainy year...
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We had over 15 inches and then some here in San Jose, definitely above normal.. the second weed crop is about ready to pluck. ;-) headed for 80 and beyond this weekend,
D@MN Warmal Globing!!!
I always wondered about that perenially-low number. I read an article a while back that explained it: The 100% is mythical, based on the theortetical system capacity of the state and federal water projects if they had been completely built as planned in the 50’s and 60’s. The system was never completely built, so 100% delivery is impossible and the “real 100%” is 50%, or something like that.
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