Lake Oroville in Nor Cal - LOW LOW LOW!!!

[EricU]

Went by Lake Oroville today after a site walk just up the road from Bidwell Marina to rent a slip for the season and did NOT like what I saw! I am not sure how many months we will be able to get in at Oroville, but after that we will stick to Berryessa and the Sac River.

We need rain in NorCal!!!


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[jslayde1]

looks like Texas...

Its been 3 or 4 years since any decent rains here in West Texas. Its definately not good....

[Stingreye]

Wow! Thats low! Oroville is going to be making waves with your RZ4 and the wake9 guys!

I wonder if the old dam at Don Pedro Reservoir is above water. Its about 200-300 feet below the surface but there are pictures at the marina of it during the 1970s drought where the old dam surfaced.

[jmhatchett]

looks like Texas...

Its been 3 or 4 years since any decent rains here in West Texas. Its definately not good....

Aint that the horrible truth

[Joeprunc]

Any only 32% snow pack this year .

But hey Jerry Brown is still planning on building some tunnels so we can drain the reservoirs even more.

[EricU]

Any only 32% snow pack this year .

But hey Jerry Brown is still planning on building some tunnels so we can drain the reservoirs even more.

Yep, that is awesome, and it ain't for the Central Valley farmers. It's for more development in SoCal. But at least he is pushing for a white elephant $100B + "Bullet Train" that we don't need!!

Hope we get rain next winter!!

[Joeprunc]

Actually around 80% of the water pumped from the tunnels will go to Westlands Water District, so they can sell to almond and grape farmers. Westlands Water District CEO funded a vast majority of Browns campaign...I wonder why JB is pushing this bill....

[EricU]

Actually around 80% of the water pumped from the tunnels will go to Westlands Water District, so they can sell to almond and grape farmers. Westlands Water District CEO funded a vast majority of Browns campaign...I wonder why JB is pushing this bill....

1. I never let the truth get in the way of a good story
2. What is the deal with that ridiculous bullet train other than having Parsons rack up ridiculous amounts of design fees and pushing ag lands to be developed??

I am now done bitching about politics and will just continue to bitch about our NorCal drought. I am too old to go through another drought.

[JLG]

Looks like most of the lakes in kansas also its dry dry dry out here!! We are limited on the docks we can use at our lake as most are too shallow or 20ft from the water. There were a lot of torn up props and lower end units on boats last year at our lake and it is even lower this year so I guess I better keep the insurance premium paid up. We like many other states need some serious rains.

[zany]

Check out the Lakes in California, only two are full.

http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cdecapp/res...phsMain.action

[EricU]

I knew parts of Texas were bad, but didn't know anything about Kansas having bad areas.

Maybe I need to retire and move to Florida and fight the bugs and gators!

[ericinmich]

Plenty of water up here in Michigan. Probably is that it's frozen 6 months of the year!

[EricU]

That is what was amazing to watch on the news this last winter. The upper Mid-West and parts of the East coast getting dumped on while we had 80 degree days when it should have been raining.

Everyone out here talked about the "beautiful weather" but would follow it up with some comment about wanting more rain...

[whiteflash watersports]

Florida is full - No more room. Our lakes, rivers, coastline and intracoastal have plenty of boats on them. In the 15 years we have been on our lake I have never seen a gator. That doesnt mean they are not there but we have never seen one. They dont bother you. We have friends that see them on their lake alot and they dont even mind them. The bugs are not as bad as everyone makes them out to be. I grew up boating in the Adirondaks in NY and the bugs were way worse.

Good luck with those drought conditions. Just keep hoping for rain it will come 4-5 yrs ago our lake was down 25 feet but has come all the way back. We are on a spring fed lake and the water companies just keep sucking the aquifer for bottled water.

[Joeprunc]

Check out the Lakes in California, only two are full.

http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cdecapp/res...phsMain.action

The southern California reservoirs were very smart in filling up their reservoirs. The Nor Cal reservoirs must drop their water levels in the fall to a designated level in anticipation of a very wet winter, to protect from floods and prevent too high flow rates down the rivers. This year the Nor Cal reservoirs released significantly less than the average amount in anticipation of a drought year....but didn't realize it would be this bad. S Cal was smart in filling theirs and holding onto it while all that water was being pumped south last fall. Either way its tricky to know what mother nature has in store for us. Hope we make it though the year, and get a better snow pack next year.