I personally think that it would be a good opportunity to build a new lake up river for California's water supply. Adding a 4th would be the smartest thing to do...which is why it'll be so hard to accomplish in CA.
Great to know that the lake has been getting plenty of water! Here's hoping it can stay that way for a while. This last decade has been depressing for our lakes and streams.
Excellent! Drove past there a few years ago on my way to points north and it was quite depressing seeing all the blank space where there should have been water. The lake surface was only about 50' low at that point, and then all I kept hearing in the news was about it [& Mead, Powell, etc] just getting lower...
What California needs is more settling ponds to catch as much run off as possible. Your leaders have no longevity plans. One of the main reasons I moved to Oregon is to have my own well and no longer have any water problems. I can run my 12 gallon a minute pump 8 hours a day " only in dry season" for about $ 1.00 a day. Such a difference from southern California. Stay hydrated my friends.
I remember in the 70s the Feather River would flood every El Nino and when the river receded there would be hundreds if not thousands of naturally retention ponds from Oroville past Marysville...they were FULL of fish most of them... I'd drag my single man life raft from pond to pond with about 20 big blue gills 2-3 lbs and put them into the river....they were natural little habitats nursing ponds... Now they levied all that up and it's literally choking the river to death ...Pike Minnows have gotten way outta hand and striper too... were eliminating our Native Salmon
I drove past the san Gabriel river today and have never seen flows that big, meanwhile the settling ponds adjacent to it remain dry. Where is the news interviewing the water district to inquire?
Well a lot more rain is heading this way next week, and I suspect Shasta will likely have to open up the spill way sooner than projected at the time of this report.
The lake has not risen to an historic level as it is still over 33 below full pool level - the lake isn't even 80 percent full and is below the level it was on this date as recent as 2019. And proper management won't fix the water supply issue as California government policy prevents that, for example, it prevents the raising of the lake, or the building of new reservoirs, it does not adequately address the severe permanent problem of loss of groundwater aquifer.
California's Water Management has always had a hard time maintaining water flows, especially when we have to give Water To So Cal... When we get our Rain they have to released it for the snow melt coming in two months. I believe the only option is more reservoirs or enlarging the ones we have.....
@@johnl5316 "California has a history of a century and more of NO RAIN " Those are your exact words, are you sure that you want to stick with your comment ?
@@grover2727 to quote, “ a 240 year long draught that started in 850 and 50 years after the conclusion of that one another that stretched at least 180 years.” from the BAY AREA NEWS GROUP. 2016, Aug 12
@@johnl5316Johnny , The word " drought " does not mean " NO RAIN " you highlighted the words " NO RAIN " I'm as old as dirt and my large family has lived in Northern and Southern California for more than 3 generations. There has been many years that our lakes have been overflowing. We have fishing tournaments here, there more than 25 lakes natural lakes pluse 53 reservoirs in California. Yes we have had droughts, this last one has lasted the longest but we have seen the these lakes full many times over the last 75 years. Therefore Your statement that California has had NO RAIN for a hundred years is misinformation.
So WHY wasn't California prepared to REFILL lakes like Mono Lake and Owen's Lake...which they had NO problem sucking dry, in the case of Owen's. Mono has been drained pretty good too. Here was an opportunity to pump water back in. If it's happening, great. But I haven't heard anything in the news.
Well said! Full reservoirs doesn't mean they can forget conservation! The problem is NOT that the climate is giving Ca less water and snow; the problem is the huge population in the state.
When lake is empty why don't the water district remove settlement from bottom to make more room? Every year the lake collects dirt etc and holds less water than year before ...
Huge flood plains should be created with boreholes drilled down into the aquifers below. Cover them with filtering media and let the water soak back into the deep water table where it's needed most.
Mar 10, 2023 · SACRAMENTO - Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order to enable local water agencies and other water users to capture water from the latest round of storms to recharge state groundwater supplies.
Mar 10, 2023 · SACRAMENTO - Governor Gavin Newsom signed an "Executive order" to enable local water agencies and other water users to capture water from the latest round of storms to recharge state groundwater supplies.
The time is now to build an aqueduct from the Columbia thru OR to Lake Shasta. From there the water can be sent South. We are all Americans, Let;s start acting like and making our parents proud.
California I have notice your dam's do not have fish bypass system's which help them reach breeding grounds. I live with in 15 miles of one of four lower Snake River dams that many ill-informed throw reasoning out the window in order of removal. Well since you state requires large % of the State of Washington's water resource in the form electricity. Those of you for removal might remember out our dam's you would most likely have frequent blackout's. May be we should stop providing this to you it is our's where not responsible for your state government bad policy making. comment by Kenneth Boren....................
Now the climate alarmists will say there’s too much rain the global warming is causing too much rain then when it doesn’t rain her little climate alarmists will say I was a drought drought. Isn’t it funny how we have weather patterns that very year-to-year decade decade. There are some people getting rich as they have from the beginning of time with the predictions of doom and gloom
Well if it's a globe at all then there must be more than California to it. Same buckled jet patterns causing out of season wildfires in Spain, 80 degrees already in China out of season, no building in France due to drought, wildfires in South America, and the list goes on. One swallow doesn't make a summer and one excessively wet winter in a part of the world doesn't undo human folly.
As conservationist and eco warrior, California residents should be mandated to drain all residential swimming pools. You don't need a 15,000 or 20,000 gallon reservoir in your backyard. You're draining lakes, rivers, and reservoirs to fill yours.
What a crock. Construct additional storage areas for excess water to flow to. This is California. We have pools and love them. The pools are 15000 to 20000 gallons. That said, we aren’t adding that amount of water a year to keep them full. Even if we were the amount of water being saved would only be a fraction of the trillions of gallons saved with proper storage. And this is coming from a conservationist.
Now start cultivating Olives! This amazing tree can grow delicious food and produce valuable oils with minimal water. Water thirsty crops need to be relocated. Shipping hay and alfalfa overseas has to stop. Your only hurting yourselves.
Then FIRST go teach the fools in LA to conserve water ... far more is WASTED down south and stolen from Northern CA ... The kids use the pool daily in the summer - build more reservoirs is the answer not to drain pools
I would add to stop watering lawns and washing cars. Ration the water you have, you don't know when this will happen again and we in washington are not about to give you our water.
Greetings from the BIG SKY. Good to see you guys get the water, finally.
California is an arid state. We must store the water when it comes. The states population has doubled and there has been no new storage created.
I personally think that it would be a good opportunity to build a new lake up river for California's water supply. Adding a 4th would be the smartest thing to do...which is why it'll be so hard to accomplish in CA.
Yeah right, they have been tearing down dams left and right.
It is so cool to be below the Dam on the Bike paths and see the spillways opening up and the mist that rises up! We will get to full pool this year!
Great to know that the lake has been getting plenty of water! Here's hoping it can stay that way for a while. This last decade has been depressing for our lakes and streams.
Drove up and back to Washington to meet my baby grandson, it was so wonderful to see the lake higher than I can remember seeing it.
When it has a lot of water Lake Shasta is gorgeous 😍
Excellent! Drove past there a few years ago on my way to points north and it was quite depressing seeing all the blank space where there should have been water. The lake surface was only about 50' low at that point, and then all I kept hearing in the news was about it [& Mead, Powell, etc] just getting lower...
If they don't start letting more water out it will be depressing alright when the temperature goes into the 70s....
Great video, thank you for sharing it.
I am really happy to hear this.
Cool story bro! 👍🏾
What California needs is more settling ponds to catch as much run off as possible. Your leaders have no longevity plans. One of the main reasons I moved to Oregon is to have my own well and no longer have any water problems. I can run my 12 gallon a minute pump 8 hours a day " only in dry season" for about $ 1.00 a day.
Such a difference from southern California. Stay hydrated my friends.
Well done!
I remember in the 70s the Feather River would flood every El Nino and when the river receded there would be hundreds if not thousands of naturally retention ponds from Oroville past Marysville...they were FULL of fish most of them... I'd drag my single man life raft from pond to pond with about 20 big blue gills 2-3 lbs and put them into the river....they were natural little habitats nursing ponds...
Now they levied all that up and it's literally choking the river to death ...Pike Minnows have gotten way outta hand and striper too... were eliminating our Native Salmon
@@jamescoleakaericunderwood2503 Most of our problems in California are self-inflicted.
@@stevet8121 Greed.... Farmers shot down the Peripheral canal vote in 87...yeah I agree
@SFnativeguy 1964 Guyd an idiot
What CA needs are govt officials to care for the land and what's left of its people! Climate is cyclical. Start behaving accordingly!
Get the government out of water management. Let the farmers decide
Gavin Newsom is clueless....
@@LAEGGE government built those water dams.
@@larry-kp9sp a long long long time ago in galaxy far away . . .
@@TeachAManToAngle government also built out interstate highway system... Not so long ago
Nature never provides "too much water"
ya even the ice age were ice was one mile high thick that grounded up all the evidence of the Europeans being in new york 100 thousand years ago
The fact that it is getting “too much” and we all know it’ll run dry this year means they need more water storage out west…
They also love letting out a lot of water to help "fishes" every year as well.
Why are you showing a picture of Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe, when referring to Redding?
Came here to ask this!
Because it makes a better picture than Shasta Lake.
@@dalesuhre6522 and the Mona Lisa makes a prettier picture, but we wouldn’t put it up on a video about Demi Moore
They are not showing Emerald Bay cuz I don't see the island in the middle.
It was a test! You passed 👏
Don’t take this water for granted, CA!
Amen!
I drove past the san Gabriel river today and have never seen flows that big, meanwhile the settling ponds adjacent to it remain dry.
Where is the news interviewing the water district to inquire?
That’s upsetting. They want you to see only what they want you to see…don’t go back to sleep
apparently we need to keep panicking about water.Give it a rest
That's wonderful 😊❤
Well a lot more rain is heading this way next week, and I suspect Shasta will likely have to open up the spill way sooner than projected at the time of this report.
Amazing how the Lord works !! God Bless
Be back down to historic lows by fall.
And your evidence is…………
Someone is a natural " negAtive nAncy" !!! Jerry are you a democrat ?
I doubt it.
Nice! I have seen it during a drought, this is great
The lake has not risen to an historic level as it is still over 33 below full pool level - the lake isn't even 80 percent full and is below the level it was on this date as recent as 2019. And proper management won't fix the water supply issue as California government policy prevents that, for example, it prevents the raising of the lake, or the building of new reservoirs, it does not adequately address the severe permanent problem of loss of groundwater aquifer.
Timely update ❤
California's Water Management has always had a hard time maintaining water flows, especially when we have to give Water To So Cal... When we get our Rain they have to released it for the snow melt coming in two months. I believe the only option is more reservoirs or enlarging the ones we have.....
very good to see this 👍💯👏
That last 42 feet is HUGE as it tapers out as it goes up
Ca has a history of a century and more of NO RAIN.......THAT is Ca
Johnny that is misinformation.
@@groverearp2600 look at the record
@@johnl5316 "California has a history of a century and more of NO RAIN "
Those are your exact words, are you sure that you want to stick with your comment ?
@@grover2727 to quote, “ a 240 year long draught that started in 850 and 50 years after the conclusion of that one another that stretched at least 180 years.” from the BAY AREA NEWS GROUP. 2016, Aug 12
@@johnl5316Johnny , The word " drought " does not mean
" NO RAIN "
you highlighted the words " NO RAIN "
I'm as old as dirt and my large family has lived in Northern and Southern California for more than 3 generations. There has been many years that our lakes have been overflowing. We have fishing tournaments here, there more than 25 lakes natural lakes pluse 53 reservoirs in California. Yes we have had droughts, this last one has lasted the longest but we have seen the these lakes full many times over the last 75 years.
Therefore Your statement that California has had NO RAIN for a hundred years is misinformation.
People are always going to complain
So how long before we hear about the drought again?
Another system on the way by Sunday night.
That's crazy 111 feet. That's so much water.
So WHY wasn't California prepared to REFILL lakes like Mono Lake and Owen's Lake...which they had NO problem sucking dry, in the case of Owen's. Mono has been drained pretty good too. Here was an opportunity to pump water back in. If it's happening, great. But I haven't heard anything in the news.
Well said! Full reservoirs doesn't mean they can forget conservation! The problem is NOT that the climate is giving Ca less water and snow; the problem is the huge population in the state.
Have you seen where a majority of the water goes? It isn't the consumer. Population is not biggest issue when it comes to water management.
When lake is empty why don't the water district remove settlement from bottom to make more room? Every year the lake collects dirt etc and holds less water than year before ...
Nice!
Huge flood plains should be created with boreholes drilled down into the aquifers below.
Cover them with filtering media and let the water soak back into the deep water table where it's needed most.
Proactive is key. They need more capacity not reduce use. They have to have more dams to catch all run off they can.
CA has a ton of reservoirs but most are small and built for flood control. They need a couple more like Shasta
We will still be dealing with a drought in the summer
Nice
Not sure how a picture of Emerald Bay in Lake Tahoe is relevant to the story.
MAYBE THEY'LL LOWER THE COST OF THE WATER FOR US?
Don’t release water yet, fill it up more and then star releasing as need it!
Good
Finally. The last time I drove through there it was empty.
CA politicians will continue to waste this blessing...... then begin the blame game once again.
Now if the community can band together to get the chemtrails to stop
Yet they say we’re still
I’m a drought in California
Mar 10, 2023 · SACRAMENTO - Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order to enable local water agencies and other water users to capture water from the latest round of storms to recharge state groundwater supplies.
Now get someone in there that can manage the resources properly.
The government should let the dam fill all the way and stop lying to us about how empty the dam really is.
tHe gUbMeNt iS tOtAlLy cOnTrOlLiNg tHe wEaThEr 😂
growing rice in a mediteranian climate is insane !!!whats wrong with us?
king salmon is way more nutritious than rice and put here by the creator. More salmon. less rice cotton almonds and other water wasters please!
The island is edited out, it’s definitely emerald bay
Do not worry ,Gavin will find a way to waste it and keep Cal in drought.😂
Mar 10, 2023 · SACRAMENTO - Governor Gavin Newsom signed an "Executive order" to enable local water agencies and other water users to capture water from the latest round of storms to recharge state groundwater supplies.
@@lakenneth374 And of course you beleave him.
The time is now to build an aqueduct from the Columbia thru OR to Lake Shasta. From there the water can be sent South. We are all Americans, Let;s start acting like and making our parents proud.
The lakes fill and the dam operators dump it out as fast as they can.
Because they’re evil or because they know how to operate a dam better than you and I? 🤔
@@CarlosG2288 making the price stay high and causing an endless drought
Dams aren't only used to water storage. They're used for flood control.
They’ll send right back into the ocean
this summer they'll be crying saying it's a natural disaster needing goverment assistance.....
What’s historic about the level? Peak has been the norm up until the 30 year drought started. Piss poor reporting, inaccurate visuals.
30 year drought? That's not true.
Its not the drout its population and where there sending the water
i asked god to do it
California I have notice your dam's do not have fish bypass system's which help them reach breeding grounds. I live with in 15 miles of one of four lower Snake River dams that many ill-informed throw reasoning out the window in order of removal. Well since you state requires large % of the State of Washington's water resource in the form electricity. Those of you for removal might remember out our dam's you would most likely have frequent blackout's. May be we should stop providing this to you it is our's where not responsible for your state government bad policy making. comment by Kenneth Boren....................
Now the climate alarmists will say there’s too much rain the global warming is causing too much rain then when it doesn’t rain her little climate alarmists will say I was a drought drought. Isn’t it funny how we have weather patterns that very year-to-year decade decade. There are some people getting rich as they have from the beginning of time with the predictions of doom and gloom
Well if it's a globe at all then there must be more than California to it. Same buckled jet patterns causing out of season wildfires in Spain, 80 degrees already in China out of season, no building in France due to drought, wildfires in South America, and the list goes on. One swallow doesn't make a summer and one excessively wet winter in a part of the world doesn't undo human folly.
Why does no one ever speak to the fact we have over DEVELOPED in the CA.?
Maybe the Man Made Climate Change isn't so bad after all! Why isn't it called Person Made Climate Change? Is that too inclusive?
Why isn't California doing anything?
California doesn’t care about its future. Policies on every issue are backward.
These are not historical levels.
My neighbor said the illegals will end up drinking all of it.
No, they will water weed plants with it...
They're called newcomers in my wife's school district. No joke.
Or waste it by hosing down everything, every day and washing their cars every day.
Ya, hurry up. Let's fill our pools, wash our cars, water the grass, we have water Yaeh
Just destroy HARP.
As conservationist and eco warrior, California residents should be mandated to drain all residential swimming pools. You don't need a 15,000 or 20,000 gallon reservoir in your backyard. You're draining lakes, rivers, and reservoirs to fill yours.
What a crock. Construct additional storage areas for excess water to flow to. This is California. We have pools and love them. The pools are 15000 to 20000 gallons. That said, we aren’t adding that amount of water a year to keep them full. Even if we were the amount of water being saved would only be a fraction of the trillions of gallons saved with proper storage. And this is coming from a conservationist.
Now start cultivating Olives! This amazing tree can grow delicious food and produce valuable oils with minimal water. Water thirsty crops need to be relocated. Shipping hay and alfalfa overseas has to stop. Your only hurting yourselves.
Then FIRST go teach the fools in LA to conserve water ... far more is WASTED down south and stolen from Northern CA ...
The kids use the pool daily in the summer - build more reservoirs is the answer not to drain pools
I would add to stop watering lawns and washing cars. Ration the water you have, you don't know when this will happen again and we in washington are not about to give you our water.
What is a reservoir ? A large pool you can't say the state should have reservoirs but people cannot
Raise the damn 10 ft and add another 500,000 acre feet of water storage!