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Determining who gets cut is decided by the foundational pecking order of Western water: the older your claim to water, created as the country expanded westward, the better protected it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When there’s a shortage, those with newer water rights have to cut back first, sometimes giving up their water completely before older claims lose a single drop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s known as “first in time, first in right.” But “first” is a relative term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“First in time, first in right is kind of laughable, because the ones that were here first were the indigenous people,” says Gary Mulcahy, government liaison for the Winnemem Wintu tribe in Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the climate gets hotter and further shrinks strained water supplies, Western states are grappling with whether a century-old water system created by white settlers can equitably handle a future of worsening droughts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rights to water have long been seen as sacrosanct by many. But after decades of exclusion, Native American tribes are helping lead the charge both in California and on the Colorado River, arguing for overhauling an arcane system they say is inherently racist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California lawmakers are debating whether to create new authority to rein in the oldest water users, who have long contended their rights can’t be constrained by the state. Cities like San Francisco and farming districts with senior water rights are lobbying hard against the bills, saying billions of dollars invested into the water system are at stake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The weight of the inequities is really stunning,” say Felicia Marcus, a fellow at Stanford University’s Water in the West program and a former California water regulator. “Folks are going to need to think about what are the alternatives to cure what might be a historic injustice, while also being aware of the equities of all the communities and people dependent on the system that we do have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1983451\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1983451\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/lfc_3672_custom-0e499fdf69d08753c0ceebb82b9c055dcfc1d402-s1600-c85-800x533.jpg\" alt='A group of 9 people stand in protest with signs reading \"Free the eel\" and \"Save the salmon\" in front of a building. 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The city was booming in the late 1800s, and officials knew that local supplies wouldn’t be enough for the growing population. They set their sights on a river high in the Sierra Nevada mountains, more than 150 miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To tap into that river, the city had to first officially file for a water right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It meant you write it on a piece of paper and nail it to a tree,” says Steve Ritchie, assistant general manager at the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to that piece of paper \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/books/edition/San_Francisco_Municipal_Reports/DHRFLjqZG3UC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=san+francisco+water+tree+tuolumne&pg=PA405&printsec=frontcover\">nailed to an 8-inch round oak tree\u003c/a> near the Tuolumne River in 1901, San Francisco has enjoyed a stable water supply ever since. During California’s most severe droughts, the city hasn’t had to make mandatory cutbacks, even when other cities and farms around the state saw their supplies dwindle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We and others have invested a lot of money in our systems to make them work based on the principle of first in time and first in right,” Ritchie says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>For tribes, being first doesn’t mean you have water\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For California’s Native American tribes, which have largely been excluded from the water rights hierarchy, that focus on the history of settlers’ interests rings hollow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we say about the senior water rights holders is they all got their water through murder, mayhem, rape, theft and genocide,” Mulcahy says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The traditional land of the Winnemem Wintu tribe in Northern California was flooded in the 1940s when California built Shasta Dam, creating the largest reservoir in the state. Today, it’s one of the most valuable sources of water, supplying farms and cities that stretch hundreds of miles, all the way to Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1983446\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1983446\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/2023_06_12_kj_2673_aerials_lake_levels_custom-66cec55890637f346881987a0f214049cc0f2d5b-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A vast blue lake is seen with a large dam connecting to a reservoir. In the background are white clouds in blue skies with green mountains.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/2023_06_12_kj_2673_aerials_lake_levels_custom-66cec55890637f346881987a0f214049cc0f2d5b-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/2023_06_12_kj_2673_aerials_lake_levels_custom-66cec55890637f346881987a0f214049cc0f2d5b-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/2023_06_12_kj_2673_aerials_lake_levels_custom-66cec55890637f346881987a0f214049cc0f2d5b-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/2023_06_12_kj_2673_aerials_lake_levels_custom-66cec55890637f346881987a0f214049cc0f2d5b-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/2023_06_12_kj_2673_aerials_lake_levels_custom-66cec55890637f346881987a0f214049cc0f2d5b-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/2023_06_12_kj_2673_aerials_lake_levels_custom-66cec55890637f346881987a0f214049cc0f2d5b-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/2023_06_12_kj_2673_aerials_lake_levels_custom-66cec55890637f346881987a0f214049cc0f2d5b.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lake Shasta in Northern California is one of the state’s most vital water supplies. When it was built in the 1940s, it also flooded the traditional homeland of the Wimmemem Wintu Tribe. \u003ccite>(Ken James/California Department of Water Resources)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We have no water rights,” Mulcahy says. “We’re the Winnemem Wintu tribe. Winnemem means ‘middle water’– middle water people. That kind of tells you our culture, our spirituality is based on water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s tribes, like most across the West, were forced to sign treaties with the federal government, giving up their land in exchange for a reservation to live on. But the treaties with most California tribes were never ratified by the U.S. Senate and \u003ca href=\"https://www.archives.gov/files/publications/prologue/2013/fall-winter/treaties.pdf\">were lost for 50 years (PDF)\u003c/a>. As a result, the tribes have no federal recognition, giving them little standing to claim water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The water rights system absolutely totally needs to change for everybody’s right, for everybody’s health and well-being, and not just a select few who think that they are the gods of water and they can’t be touched,” Mulcahy says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>State bills would grant authority over senior rights\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California lawmakers are now debating whether to take some steps toward reform. State bills would give regulators more power to investigate the water use of senior rights holders, allow them to order those rights holders to stop using water when there’s a shortage, and to increase the fines against those who take water illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pushback has been swift from senior rights holders, which represent some of California’s wealthiest cities and farming areas. Many contend their water use can’t be curbed, since their rights were established before California created its regulatory water agency in 1914, the California State Water Resources Control Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t think that curtailment should apply to us,” Ritchie says. “Water rights are basically a form of a property right. So having the uncertainty that that supply might be cut at some point, that is very troubling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1983447\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1983447\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/gettyimages-1153763326_custom-42a2dabb5e51047cf49fa272e6126303d6e5d965-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two women are seen on a truck filling up large containers of water through a pipe. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/gettyimages-1153763326_custom-42a2dabb5e51047cf49fa272e6126303d6e5d965-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/gettyimages-1153763326_custom-42a2dabb5e51047cf49fa272e6126303d6e5d965-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/gettyimages-1153763326_custom-42a2dabb5e51047cf49fa272e6126303d6e5d965-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/gettyimages-1153763326_custom-42a2dabb5e51047cf49fa272e6126303d6e5d965-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/gettyimages-1153763326_custom-42a2dabb5e51047cf49fa272e6126303d6e5d965-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/gettyimages-1153763326_custom-42a2dabb5e51047cf49fa272e6126303d6e5d965-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/gettyimages-1153763326_custom-42a2dabb5e51047cf49fa272e6126303d6e5d965.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Women who belong to the Navajo Nation fill up their family’s water containers. Parts of the reservation still lack running water and the tribe has been pushing for rights to the Colorado River for decades. \u003ccite>(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During California’s last two droughts, state regulators struggled to order cutbacks among those with senior water rights, lacking data about how much water was being used and what rights were affected. When water users have defied orders to cut their use, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/11/california-ranchers-drought-fine/\">the state’s ability to levy fines has been minimal\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t mean to say it’s kind of a hot mess, but it’s kind of a mess,” Marcus says. “We have to figure out how to have a better way of allocating water more fairly according to set-upon rules that everybody can see.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Tribes push for water rights on the Colorado River\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Water cutbacks are also contentious on the Colorado River. There, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/06/09/1003424717/the-drought-in-the-western-u-s-is-getting-bad-climate-change-is-making-it-worse\">two-decades-long drought\u003c/a> is forcing states to face a harsh reality: the future will mean less water for everyone. But tribes on the river \u003ca href=\"https://www.kunc.org/thirstgap/2023-05-15/first-in-time\">have been left out from the very beginning\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/03/20/1164852475/supreme-court-navajo-nation-water-rights\">Navajo Nation has been battling with the state of Arizona\u003c/a> for decades over getting its water rights clarified on the river. Some parts of the reservation \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/01/06/374584452/for-many-of-navajo-nation-water-delivery-comes-monthly\">still lack running water\u003c/a>, forcing residents to get deliveries by truck. As a federally-recognized tribe, the Navajo Nation has rights to water as part of the “permanent home” the federal government granted with a treaty creating the reservation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The issue is that they haven’t been quantified and no one really knows what the scope of those rights look like,” says Dylan Hedden-Nicely, director of the Native American Law Program at the University of Idaho College of Law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, the Supreme Court ruled against the tribe, saying the federal government had no duty to support the investment needed to deliver a water supply. Still, after a long-fought battle, tribes are now \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/04/27/1172273665/tribal-nations-were-once-excluded-from-colorado-river-talks-now-theyre-key-playe\">being included in key negotiations\u003c/a> over the future of the river.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1983448\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1983448\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/hetch_hetchy_18_custom-1b4a57f0d87c8b165d5278a110d6a170c8924343-800x542.jpg\" alt=\"An image of a lake with a backdrop of mountain cliffs. Green trees, rocks and dirt surfaces are seen in the frame.\" width=\"800\" height=\"542\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/hetch_hetchy_18_custom-1b4a57f0d87c8b165d5278a110d6a170c8924343-800x542.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/hetch_hetchy_18_custom-1b4a57f0d87c8b165d5278a110d6a170c8924343-1020x692.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/hetch_hetchy_18_custom-1b4a57f0d87c8b165d5278a110d6a170c8924343-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/hetch_hetchy_18_custom-1b4a57f0d87c8b165d5278a110d6a170c8924343-768x521.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/hetch_hetchy_18_custom-1b4a57f0d87c8b165d5278a110d6a170c8924343-1536x1041.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/hetch_hetchy_18_custom-1b4a57f0d87c8b165d5278a110d6a170c8924343-1920x1302.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/hetch_hetchy_18_custom-1b4a57f0d87c8b165d5278a110d6a170c8924343.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 1901, San Francisco claimed water from the Tuolumne River by nailing a piece of paper to a tree. The city has long contended that its senior water rights shouldn’t be constrained by the state. \u003ccite>(California Department of Water Resources)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In cases where tribes have had their water rights spelled out, they’ve struck deals to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/colorado-river-water-tribes-climate-drought-540c7db3588b2369985351ac9e9114b1\">transfer some of that water\u003c/a> to alleviate the overall shortage for everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those are the types of opportunities that exist if people can get over this historical paradigm that this is a zero-sum game – if you get anything, it’s coming out of my hide and therefore I’m going to fight you tooth and nail,” Hedden-Nicely says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the climate gets hotter, water supplies both on the Colorado River and in California \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/06/09/1003424717/the-drought-in-the-western-u-s-is-getting-bad-climate-change-is-making-it-worse\">are expected to shrink\u003c/a> and become more erratic. With the pressure mounting, the inequities in the system are becoming hard to ignore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think climate change is forcing these conversations that are uncomfortable because the water’s just not there,” Marcus says. “And we need to figure out what to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=A+racist+past+and+hotter+future+are+testing+Western+water+like+never+before&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In Western states, the older a water claim, the more secure it is during a drought. Tribes have long been excluded from that system, and now, they're pushing for change.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704845958,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":34,"wordCount":1623},"headData":{"title":"A Racist Past and Hotter Future Are Testing Western Water Like Never Before | KQED","description":"In Western states, the older a water claim, the more secure it is during a drought. Tribes have long been excluded from that system, and now, they're pushing for change.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"A Racist Past and Hotter Future Are Testing Western Water Like Never Before","datePublished":"2023-07-12T11:00:30.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-10T00:19:18.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"source":"NPR","sticky":false,"nprImageCredit":"John Locher","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/803934365/lauren-sommer\">Lauren Sommer\u003c/a>","nprImageAgency":"AP","nprStoryId":"1186771880","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=1186771880&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2023/07/11/1186771880/west-water-rights-tribes-climate-change-drought?ft=nprml&f=1186771880","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Tue, 11 Jul 2023 05:11:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Tue, 11 Jul 2023 05:00:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Tue, 11 Jul 2023 05:11:16 -0400","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/science/1983443/a-racist-past-and-hotter-future-are-testing-western-water-like-never-before","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As droughts strain water supplies across Western states, some cities and farmers have struggled with mandatory cutbacks. Determining who gets cut is decided by the foundational pecking order of Western water: the older your claim to water, created as the country expanded westward, the better protected it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When there’s a shortage, those with newer water rights have to cut back first, sometimes giving up their water completely before older claims lose a single drop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s known as “first in time, first in right.” But “first” is a relative term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“First in time, first in right is kind of laughable, because the ones that were here first were the indigenous people,” says Gary Mulcahy, government liaison for the Winnemem Wintu tribe in Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the climate gets hotter and further shrinks strained water supplies, Western states are grappling with whether a century-old water system created by white settlers can equitably handle a future of worsening droughts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rights to water have long been seen as sacrosanct by many. But after decades of exclusion, Native American tribes are helping lead the charge both in California and on the Colorado River, arguing for overhauling an arcane system they say is inherently racist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California lawmakers are debating whether to create new authority to rein in the oldest water users, who have long contended their rights can’t be constrained by the state. Cities like San Francisco and farming districts with senior water rights are lobbying hard against the bills, saying billions of dollars invested into the water system are at stake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The weight of the inequities is really stunning,” say Felicia Marcus, a fellow at Stanford University’s Water in the West program and a former California water regulator. “Folks are going to need to think about what are the alternatives to cure what might be a historic injustice, while also being aware of the equities of all the communities and people dependent on the system that we do have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1983451\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1983451\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/lfc_3672_custom-0e499fdf69d08753c0ceebb82b9c055dcfc1d402-s1600-c85-800x533.jpg\" alt='A group of 9 people stand in protest with signs reading \"Free the eel\" and \"Save the salmon\" in front of a building. A man on the far right holds a microphone.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/lfc_3672_custom-0e499fdf69d08753c0ceebb82b9c055dcfc1d402-s1600-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/lfc_3672_custom-0e499fdf69d08753c0ceebb82b9c055dcfc1d402-s1600-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/lfc_3672_custom-0e499fdf69d08753c0ceebb82b9c055dcfc1d402-s1600-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/lfc_3672_custom-0e499fdf69d08753c0ceebb82b9c055dcfc1d402-s1600-c85-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/lfc_3672_custom-0e499fdf69d08753c0ceebb82b9c055dcfc1d402-s1600-c85-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/lfc_3672_custom-0e499fdf69d08753c0ceebb82b9c055dcfc1d402-s1600-c85.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gary Mulcahy of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe (right) speaks at a rally for water rights and the environment at California’s state Capitol building. \u003ccite>(Tim Daw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>First in time, via a piece of paper on a tree\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>More than a century ago, San Francisco locked up a pristine water supply. The city was booming in the late 1800s, and officials knew that local supplies wouldn’t be enough for the growing population. They set their sights on a river high in the Sierra Nevada mountains, more than 150 miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To tap into that river, the city had to first officially file for a water right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It meant you write it on a piece of paper and nail it to a tree,” says Steve Ritchie, assistant general manager at the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to that piece of paper \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/books/edition/San_Francisco_Municipal_Reports/DHRFLjqZG3UC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=san+francisco+water+tree+tuolumne&pg=PA405&printsec=frontcover\">nailed to an 8-inch round oak tree\u003c/a> near the Tuolumne River in 1901, San Francisco has enjoyed a stable water supply ever since. During California’s most severe droughts, the city hasn’t had to make mandatory cutbacks, even when other cities and farms around the state saw their supplies dwindle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We and others have invested a lot of money in our systems to make them work based on the principle of first in time and first in right,” Ritchie says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>For tribes, being first doesn’t mean you have water\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For California’s Native American tribes, which have largely been excluded from the water rights hierarchy, that focus on the history of settlers’ interests rings hollow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we say about the senior water rights holders is they all got their water through murder, mayhem, rape, theft and genocide,” Mulcahy says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The traditional land of the Winnemem Wintu tribe in Northern California was flooded in the 1940s when California built Shasta Dam, creating the largest reservoir in the state. Today, it’s one of the most valuable sources of water, supplying farms and cities that stretch hundreds of miles, all the way to Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1983446\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1983446\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/2023_06_12_kj_2673_aerials_lake_levels_custom-66cec55890637f346881987a0f214049cc0f2d5b-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A vast blue lake is seen with a large dam connecting to a reservoir. In the background are white clouds in blue skies with green mountains.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/2023_06_12_kj_2673_aerials_lake_levels_custom-66cec55890637f346881987a0f214049cc0f2d5b-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/2023_06_12_kj_2673_aerials_lake_levels_custom-66cec55890637f346881987a0f214049cc0f2d5b-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/2023_06_12_kj_2673_aerials_lake_levels_custom-66cec55890637f346881987a0f214049cc0f2d5b-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/2023_06_12_kj_2673_aerials_lake_levels_custom-66cec55890637f346881987a0f214049cc0f2d5b-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/2023_06_12_kj_2673_aerials_lake_levels_custom-66cec55890637f346881987a0f214049cc0f2d5b-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/2023_06_12_kj_2673_aerials_lake_levels_custom-66cec55890637f346881987a0f214049cc0f2d5b-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/2023_06_12_kj_2673_aerials_lake_levels_custom-66cec55890637f346881987a0f214049cc0f2d5b.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lake Shasta in Northern California is one of the state’s most vital water supplies. When it was built in the 1940s, it also flooded the traditional homeland of the Wimmemem Wintu Tribe. \u003ccite>(Ken James/California Department of Water Resources)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We have no water rights,” Mulcahy says. “We’re the Winnemem Wintu tribe. Winnemem means ‘middle water’– middle water people. That kind of tells you our culture, our spirituality is based on water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s tribes, like most across the West, were forced to sign treaties with the federal government, giving up their land in exchange for a reservation to live on. But the treaties with most California tribes were never ratified by the U.S. Senate and \u003ca href=\"https://www.archives.gov/files/publications/prologue/2013/fall-winter/treaties.pdf\">were lost for 50 years (PDF)\u003c/a>. As a result, the tribes have no federal recognition, giving them little standing to claim water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The water rights system absolutely totally needs to change for everybody’s right, for everybody’s health and well-being, and not just a select few who think that they are the gods of water and they can’t be touched,” Mulcahy says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>State bills would grant authority over senior rights\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California lawmakers are now debating whether to take some steps toward reform. State bills would give regulators more power to investigate the water use of senior rights holders, allow them to order those rights holders to stop using water when there’s a shortage, and to increase the fines against those who take water illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pushback has been swift from senior rights holders, which represent some of California’s wealthiest cities and farming areas. Many contend their water use can’t be curbed, since their rights were established before California created its regulatory water agency in 1914, the California State Water Resources Control Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t think that curtailment should apply to us,” Ritchie says. “Water rights are basically a form of a property right. So having the uncertainty that that supply might be cut at some point, that is very troubling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1983447\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1983447\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/gettyimages-1153763326_custom-42a2dabb5e51047cf49fa272e6126303d6e5d965-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two women are seen on a truck filling up large containers of water through a pipe. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/gettyimages-1153763326_custom-42a2dabb5e51047cf49fa272e6126303d6e5d965-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/gettyimages-1153763326_custom-42a2dabb5e51047cf49fa272e6126303d6e5d965-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/gettyimages-1153763326_custom-42a2dabb5e51047cf49fa272e6126303d6e5d965-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/gettyimages-1153763326_custom-42a2dabb5e51047cf49fa272e6126303d6e5d965-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/gettyimages-1153763326_custom-42a2dabb5e51047cf49fa272e6126303d6e5d965-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/gettyimages-1153763326_custom-42a2dabb5e51047cf49fa272e6126303d6e5d965-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/gettyimages-1153763326_custom-42a2dabb5e51047cf49fa272e6126303d6e5d965.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Women who belong to the Navajo Nation fill up their family’s water containers. Parts of the reservation still lack running water and the tribe has been pushing for rights to the Colorado River for decades. \u003ccite>(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During California’s last two droughts, state regulators struggled to order cutbacks among those with senior water rights, lacking data about how much water was being used and what rights were affected. When water users have defied orders to cut their use, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/11/california-ranchers-drought-fine/\">the state’s ability to levy fines has been minimal\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t mean to say it’s kind of a hot mess, but it’s kind of a mess,” Marcus says. “We have to figure out how to have a better way of allocating water more fairly according to set-upon rules that everybody can see.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Tribes push for water rights on the Colorado River\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Water cutbacks are also contentious on the Colorado River. There, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/06/09/1003424717/the-drought-in-the-western-u-s-is-getting-bad-climate-change-is-making-it-worse\">two-decades-long drought\u003c/a> is forcing states to face a harsh reality: the future will mean less water for everyone. But tribes on the river \u003ca href=\"https://www.kunc.org/thirstgap/2023-05-15/first-in-time\">have been left out from the very beginning\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/03/20/1164852475/supreme-court-navajo-nation-water-rights\">Navajo Nation has been battling with the state of Arizona\u003c/a> for decades over getting its water rights clarified on the river. Some parts of the reservation \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/01/06/374584452/for-many-of-navajo-nation-water-delivery-comes-monthly\">still lack running water\u003c/a>, forcing residents to get deliveries by truck. As a federally-recognized tribe, the Navajo Nation has rights to water as part of the “permanent home” the federal government granted with a treaty creating the reservation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The issue is that they haven’t been quantified and no one really knows what the scope of those rights look like,” says Dylan Hedden-Nicely, director of the Native American Law Program at the University of Idaho College of Law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, the Supreme Court ruled against the tribe, saying the federal government had no duty to support the investment needed to deliver a water supply. Still, after a long-fought battle, tribes are now \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/04/27/1172273665/tribal-nations-were-once-excluded-from-colorado-river-talks-now-theyre-key-playe\">being included in key negotiations\u003c/a> over the future of the river.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1983448\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1983448\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/hetch_hetchy_18_custom-1b4a57f0d87c8b165d5278a110d6a170c8924343-800x542.jpg\" alt=\"An image of a lake with a backdrop of mountain cliffs. Green trees, rocks and dirt surfaces are seen in the frame.\" width=\"800\" height=\"542\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/hetch_hetchy_18_custom-1b4a57f0d87c8b165d5278a110d6a170c8924343-800x542.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/hetch_hetchy_18_custom-1b4a57f0d87c8b165d5278a110d6a170c8924343-1020x692.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/hetch_hetchy_18_custom-1b4a57f0d87c8b165d5278a110d6a170c8924343-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/hetch_hetchy_18_custom-1b4a57f0d87c8b165d5278a110d6a170c8924343-768x521.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/hetch_hetchy_18_custom-1b4a57f0d87c8b165d5278a110d6a170c8924343-1536x1041.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/hetch_hetchy_18_custom-1b4a57f0d87c8b165d5278a110d6a170c8924343-1920x1302.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/hetch_hetchy_18_custom-1b4a57f0d87c8b165d5278a110d6a170c8924343.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 1901, San Francisco claimed water from the Tuolumne River by nailing a piece of paper to a tree. The city has long contended that its senior water rights shouldn’t be constrained by the state. \u003ccite>(California Department of Water Resources)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In cases where tribes have had their water rights spelled out, they’ve struck deals to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/colorado-river-water-tribes-climate-drought-540c7db3588b2369985351ac9e9114b1\">transfer some of that water\u003c/a> to alleviate the overall shortage for everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those are the types of opportunities that exist if people can get over this historical paradigm that this is a zero-sum game – if you get anything, it’s coming out of my hide and therefore I’m going to fight you tooth and nail,” Hedden-Nicely says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the climate gets hotter, water supplies both on the Colorado River and in California \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/06/09/1003424717/the-drought-in-the-western-u-s-is-getting-bad-climate-change-is-making-it-worse\">are expected to shrink\u003c/a> and become more erratic. With the pressure mounting, the inequities in the system are becoming hard to ignore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think climate change is forcing these conversations that are uncomfortable because the water’s just not there,” Marcus says. “And we need to figure out what to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=A+racist+past+and+hotter+future+are+testing+Western+water+like+never+before&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1983443/a-racist-past-and-hotter-future-are-testing-western-water-like-never-before","authors":["byline_science_1983443"],"categories":["science_31","science_40","science_4450"],"tags":["science_3905","science_194","science_572","science_4417","science_539"],"featImg":"science_1983444","label":"source_science_1983443"},"science_1983357":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1983357","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1983357","score":null,"sort":[1689026661000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"record-lows-to-near-brimming-north-bay-reservoirs-stage-remarkable-recovery","title":"Record Lows to Near Brimming: North Bay Reservoirs Stage Remarkable Recovery","publishDate":1689026661,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Record Lows to Near Brimming: North Bay Reservoirs Stage Remarkable Recovery | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"science"},"content":"\u003cp>Two North Bay reservoirs are flush with water just a year after their levels fell to record-setting lows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heading into the second week of July, Lake Sonoma and Lake Mendocino — at 66% and 79% full, respectively — are both well \u003ca href=\"https://cdec.water.ca.gov/reportapp/javareports?name=RES\">above their average levels for this time of year\u003c/a>, and roughly twice as full as they were last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unless you count the first year it was filled, Lake Sonoma had dropped to the lowest level ever,” said David Rabbitt, a Sonoma County supervisor and a Sonoma Water director. “To rebound like that in one year was beyond anyone’s imagination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1983352\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1983352\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two photos of the a lake with low water levels. On the left, a bridge crosses a span where the banks of the lake are so low that the lake bed has been exposed. On the right, the same is the case but boats are also seen in dock.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"827\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-1-KQED.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-1-KQED-800x265.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-1-KQED-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-1-KQED-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-1-KQED-768x254.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-1-KQED-1536x508.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-1-KQED-2048x677.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-1-KQED-1920x635.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: A view of the Warm Springs Creek Bridge from the Lake Sonoma Overlook on the southeastern coast of the lake on June 11, 2021. Right: A view of the Lake Sonoma Resort Area from the Lake Sonoma Overlook on the southeastern coast of the lake on June 11, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the summer heats up, \u003ca href=\"https://cdec.water.ca.gov/reportapp/javareports?name=RES\">reservoir levels statewide are collectively at around 87%\u003c/a>, the result of the massive amount of precipitation that storms dumped on the state this year. But while other reservoirs across California depend on runoff from the Sierra Nevada snowpack, Lake Mendocino and Lake Sonoma — serving over 600,000 customers in Sonoma and Marin counties — rely on seasonal rains in the hills above the Russian River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although this flash-in-the-pan system normally goes through wet-to-dry extremes, human-caused climate change has significantly widened that chasm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The weather patterns are so volatile,” said Rabbitt. “Three years of drought can be followed by one year of intense rainfall can be followed by three or more years of drought again. And we seem to be in this pattern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1983333\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1983333\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/RS49925_029_MendocinoCounty_LakeMendocinoDrought_06112021-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two people stand in the middle of a dried out lake bed.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/RS49925_029_MendocinoCounty_LakeMendocinoDrought_06112021-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/RS49925_029_MendocinoCounty_LakeMendocinoDrought_06112021-KQED-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/RS49925_029_MendocinoCounty_LakeMendocinoDrought_06112021-KQED-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/RS49925_029_MendocinoCounty_LakeMendocinoDrought_06112021-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/RS49925_029_MendocinoCounty_LakeMendocinoDrought_06112021-KQED-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/RS49925_029_MendocinoCounty_LakeMendocinoDrought_06112021-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/RS49925_029_MendocinoCounty_LakeMendocinoDrought_06112021-KQED-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two people and a dog wade near the coast of Lake Mendocino on June 11, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He notes that even with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1982822/6-common-misconceptions-about-el-nino-and-its-impact-on-california-weather\">grand reentrance of El Niño this summer\u003c/a> — which could usher in another wet, stormy winter — his agency has to prepare for what may be a dry year ahead.[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Supervisor David Rabbitt, Sonoma County\"]‘The weather patterns are so volatile. Three years of drought can be followed by one year of intense rainfall can be followed by three or more years of drought again.’[/pullquote]Regardless of what comes from the skies, Sonoma Water, which collectively manages both reservoirs with the Army Corps of Engineers, uses satellite forecasting to watch for coming storms to decide in real time when to release water. When a storm is on its way, the agency can decide to let water out or keep it in the reservoir if there is no storm on track. While it sounds like a no-brainer, the concept is new to how the reservoirs are managed because of rules set up decades ago. This practice allowed the agencies to keep 19,000 acre-feet of water in Lake Sonoma and 5,000 acre-feet of water in Lake Mendocino this winter, instead of releasing it into the ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we think of Lake Sonoma as a large reservoir, compared to some of the others in the state, it’s not,” said Nicholas Malasavage, chief of the operations and readiness division at the Army Corps’ San Francisco office. “Imagine the amount of water that could be saved if [the state] utilized that tool to its fullest potential.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1983350\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1983350\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two photos of the boat dock at different points in time. On the left, the dock sits on the floor of the dried out lake bed. On the right, it floats on top of the water.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"827\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-2-KQED.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-2-KQED-800x265.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-2-KQED-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-2-KQED-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-2-KQED-768x254.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-2-KQED-1536x508.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-2-KQED-2048x677.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-2-KQED-1920x635.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A boat dock at Lake Mendocino on June 11, 2021 (left) and July 5, 2023 (right). \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sonoma Water also uses a series of stationary radar units across the Bay Area to better understand where these storms will drop the majority of their rainfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Malasavage said fuller reservoirs and the possibility of another wet year also raise a concern that was avoided last winter along the Russian River: disastrous flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Last year we were just hoping for rain,” he said. But this year, with reservoirs fuller, the agency has “to be more methodical and more mindful” of potential flooding when winter begins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1983339\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1983339\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/RS66732_230705-LakeMendocino-21-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing a baseball cap wades into water holding a fishing rod in their hands.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/RS66732_230705-LakeMendocino-21-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/RS66732_230705-LakeMendocino-21-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/RS66732_230705-LakeMendocino-21-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/RS66732_230705-LakeMendocino-21-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/RS66732_230705-LakeMendocino-21-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/RS66732_230705-LakeMendocino-21-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/RS66732_230705-LakeMendocino-21-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sean Adams stands on a partially submerged park bench to fish at the Lake Mendocino South Ramp on July 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the rainy season, managers in charge of flows from the reservoirs also allowed farmers to use excess water from the Russian River to submerge their land, a process meant to slowly recharge groundwater aquifers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were just simulating what naturally would have been a rainy season,” said Elizabeth Salomone, general manager for the Russian River Flood Control and Water Conservation Improvement District. “Some of these farmers who did that saw better yields in 2022. Word of mouth got around and now folks are opening up a lot more to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even with all the rain this year, Salomone said she is worried about both too much and too little rainfall next winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1983351\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1983351\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-3-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two photos of the same iron bridge at different moments in time. On the left, there are standing pools of water in the river bed. On the right, the banks of the river brim with flowing water.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"827\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-3-KQED.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-3-KQED-800x265.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-3-KQED-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-3-KQED-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-3-KQED-768x254.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-3-KQED-1536x508.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-3-KQED-2048x677.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-3-KQED-1920x635.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Memorial Bridge over the Russian River near Healdsburg on June 3, 2021 (left), and July 5, 2023 (right). \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images (left), Beth LaBerge/KQED (right))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I need to dust off my crystal ball because as a water supplier, I always have to consider the worst-case scenario,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she gets calls from farmers all the time asking whether the drought is over, and tells them they’re asking the wrong question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to stop focusing on whether we are out of a drought, but instead, ask this question: What if it doesn’t rain when we expect it to rain?” Salomone said. “Because one thing we can expect is that it’s likely not going to occur the way we have expected it to in the past. The historical patterns of precipitation are no more.”[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Lake Sonoma and Lake Mendocino — at 66% and 79% full, respectively — are both well above their average levels for this time of year. But there are concerns about future rainfall.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704845965,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":995},"headData":{"title":"Record Lows to Near Brimming: North Bay Reservoirs Stage Remarkable Recovery | KQED","description":"Lake Sonoma and Lake Mendocino — at 66% and 79% full, respectively — are both well above their average levels for this time of year. But there are concerns about future rainfall.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Record Lows to Near Brimming: North Bay Reservoirs Stage Remarkable Recovery","datePublished":"2023-07-10T22:04:21.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-10T00:19:25.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/science/1983357/record-lows-to-near-brimming-north-bay-reservoirs-stage-remarkable-recovery","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Two North Bay reservoirs are flush with water just a year after their levels fell to record-setting lows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heading into the second week of July, Lake Sonoma and Lake Mendocino — at 66% and 79% full, respectively — are both well \u003ca href=\"https://cdec.water.ca.gov/reportapp/javareports?name=RES\">above their average levels for this time of year\u003c/a>, and roughly twice as full as they were last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unless you count the first year it was filled, Lake Sonoma had dropped to the lowest level ever,” said David Rabbitt, a Sonoma County supervisor and a Sonoma Water director. “To rebound like that in one year was beyond anyone’s imagination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1983352\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1983352\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two photos of the a lake with low water levels. On the left, a bridge crosses a span where the banks of the lake are so low that the lake bed has been exposed. On the right, the same is the case but boats are also seen in dock.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"827\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-1-KQED.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-1-KQED-800x265.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-1-KQED-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-1-KQED-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-1-KQED-768x254.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-1-KQED-1536x508.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-1-KQED-2048x677.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-1-KQED-1920x635.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: A view of the Warm Springs Creek Bridge from the Lake Sonoma Overlook on the southeastern coast of the lake on June 11, 2021. Right: A view of the Lake Sonoma Resort Area from the Lake Sonoma Overlook on the southeastern coast of the lake on June 11, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the summer heats up, \u003ca href=\"https://cdec.water.ca.gov/reportapp/javareports?name=RES\">reservoir levels statewide are collectively at around 87%\u003c/a>, the result of the massive amount of precipitation that storms dumped on the state this year. But while other reservoirs across California depend on runoff from the Sierra Nevada snowpack, Lake Mendocino and Lake Sonoma — serving over 600,000 customers in Sonoma and Marin counties — rely on seasonal rains in the hills above the Russian River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although this flash-in-the-pan system normally goes through wet-to-dry extremes, human-caused climate change has significantly widened that chasm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The weather patterns are so volatile,” said Rabbitt. “Three years of drought can be followed by one year of intense rainfall can be followed by three or more years of drought again. And we seem to be in this pattern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1983333\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1983333\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/RS49925_029_MendocinoCounty_LakeMendocinoDrought_06112021-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two people stand in the middle of a dried out lake bed.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/RS49925_029_MendocinoCounty_LakeMendocinoDrought_06112021-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/RS49925_029_MendocinoCounty_LakeMendocinoDrought_06112021-KQED-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/RS49925_029_MendocinoCounty_LakeMendocinoDrought_06112021-KQED-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/RS49925_029_MendocinoCounty_LakeMendocinoDrought_06112021-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/RS49925_029_MendocinoCounty_LakeMendocinoDrought_06112021-KQED-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/RS49925_029_MendocinoCounty_LakeMendocinoDrought_06112021-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/RS49925_029_MendocinoCounty_LakeMendocinoDrought_06112021-KQED-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two people and a dog wade near the coast of Lake Mendocino on June 11, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He notes that even with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1982822/6-common-misconceptions-about-el-nino-and-its-impact-on-california-weather\">grand reentrance of El Niño this summer\u003c/a> — which could usher in another wet, stormy winter — his agency has to prepare for what may be a dry year ahead.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘The weather patterns are so volatile. Three years of drought can be followed by one year of intense rainfall can be followed by three or more years of drought again.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Supervisor David Rabbitt, Sonoma County","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Regardless of what comes from the skies, Sonoma Water, which collectively manages both reservoirs with the Army Corps of Engineers, uses satellite forecasting to watch for coming storms to decide in real time when to release water. When a storm is on its way, the agency can decide to let water out or keep it in the reservoir if there is no storm on track. While it sounds like a no-brainer, the concept is new to how the reservoirs are managed because of rules set up decades ago. This practice allowed the agencies to keep 19,000 acre-feet of water in Lake Sonoma and 5,000 acre-feet of water in Lake Mendocino this winter, instead of releasing it into the ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we think of Lake Sonoma as a large reservoir, compared to some of the others in the state, it’s not,” said Nicholas Malasavage, chief of the operations and readiness division at the Army Corps’ San Francisco office. “Imagine the amount of water that could be saved if [the state] utilized that tool to its fullest potential.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1983350\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1983350\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two photos of the boat dock at different points in time. On the left, the dock sits on the floor of the dried out lake bed. On the right, it floats on top of the water.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"827\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-2-KQED.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-2-KQED-800x265.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-2-KQED-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-2-KQED-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-2-KQED-768x254.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-2-KQED-1536x508.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-2-KQED-2048x677.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-2-KQED-1920x635.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A boat dock at Lake Mendocino on June 11, 2021 (left) and July 5, 2023 (right). \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sonoma Water also uses a series of stationary radar units across the Bay Area to better understand where these storms will drop the majority of their rainfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Malasavage said fuller reservoirs and the possibility of another wet year also raise a concern that was avoided last winter along the Russian River: disastrous flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Last year we were just hoping for rain,” he said. But this year, with reservoirs fuller, the agency has “to be more methodical and more mindful” of potential flooding when winter begins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1983339\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1983339\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/RS66732_230705-LakeMendocino-21-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing a baseball cap wades into water holding a fishing rod in their hands.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/RS66732_230705-LakeMendocino-21-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/RS66732_230705-LakeMendocino-21-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/RS66732_230705-LakeMendocino-21-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/RS66732_230705-LakeMendocino-21-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/RS66732_230705-LakeMendocino-21-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/RS66732_230705-LakeMendocino-21-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/RS66732_230705-LakeMendocino-21-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sean Adams stands on a partially submerged park bench to fish at the Lake Mendocino South Ramp on July 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the rainy season, managers in charge of flows from the reservoirs also allowed farmers to use excess water from the Russian River to submerge their land, a process meant to slowly recharge groundwater aquifers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were just simulating what naturally would have been a rainy season,” said Elizabeth Salomone, general manager for the Russian River Flood Control and Water Conservation Improvement District. “Some of these farmers who did that saw better yields in 2022. Word of mouth got around and now folks are opening up a lot more to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even with all the rain this year, Salomone said she is worried about both too much and too little rainfall next winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1983351\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1983351\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-3-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two photos of the same iron bridge at different moments in time. On the left, there are standing pools of water in the river bed. On the right, the banks of the river brim with flowing water.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"827\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-3-KQED.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-3-KQED-800x265.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-3-KQED-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-3-KQED-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-3-KQED-768x254.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-3-KQED-1536x508.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-3-KQED-2048x677.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/071023-Lakes-Sonoma-Mendocino-Diptych-3-KQED-1920x635.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Memorial Bridge over the Russian River near Healdsburg on June 3, 2021 (left), and July 5, 2023 (right). \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images (left), Beth LaBerge/KQED (right))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I need to dust off my crystal ball because as a water supplier, I always have to consider the worst-case scenario,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she gets calls from farmers all the time asking whether the drought is over, and tells them they’re asking the wrong question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to stop focusing on whether we are out of a drought, but instead, ask this question: What if it doesn’t rain when we expect it to rain?” Salomone said. “Because one thing we can expect is that it’s likely not going to occur the way we have expected it to in the past. The historical patterns of precipitation are no more.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1983357/record-lows-to-near-brimming-north-bay-reservoirs-stage-remarkable-recovery","authors":["11746"],"categories":["science_40","science_4450"],"tags":["science_194","science_539"],"featImg":"science_1983340","label":"science"},"science_1982776":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1982776","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1982776","score":null,"sort":[1684955736000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-wants-to-store-floodwaters-underground-its-harder-than-it-sounds","title":"California Wants to Store Floodwaters Underground. It's Harder Than It Sounds","publishDate":1684955736,"format":"standard","headTitle":"California Wants to Store Floodwaters Underground. It’s Harder Than It Sounds | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>For much of the last few decades, when the sky didn’t produce enough water for his cows and crops, Dino Giacomazzi — like most farmers in California’s southern Central Valley — pumped it from the earth. Underground aquifers, vast bank accounts of stored water, were drained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, after a historically wet winter, Giacomazzi and the state of California want to put some of that water back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a no-brainer, win-win, multibenefit opportunity,” said Giacomazzi, standing on his Central Valley farm, which depends on groundwater to grow almonds, lettuce and tomatoes for pizza sauce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More water stored underground means fewer flooded farms, and more water available to farmers like him during the next inevitable drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982778\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1982778 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230414-_dsc7315_slide-f4ad38703f1ea83d5235b8f204ab33ca99410025-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A white man with dark brown hair and black sunglasses, wearing a black puffer jacket with an orange collared shirt and jeans, stands on a farm with a to-go cup in his hand. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230414-_dsc7315_slide-f4ad38703f1ea83d5235b8f204ab33ca99410025-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230414-_dsc7315_slide-f4ad38703f1ea83d5235b8f204ab33ca99410025-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230414-_dsc7315_slide-f4ad38703f1ea83d5235b8f204ab33ca99410025-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230414-_dsc7315_slide-f4ad38703f1ea83d5235b8f204ab33ca99410025-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230414-_dsc7315_slide-f4ad38703f1ea83d5235b8f204ab33ca99410025-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230414-_dsc7315_slide-f4ad38703f1ea83d5235b8f204ab33ca99410025-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230414-_dsc7315_slide-f4ad38703f1ea83d5235b8f204ab33ca99410025-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dino Giacomazzi stands on his Central Valley farm, which depends on groundwater to grow almonds, lettuce and tomatoes for pizza sauce. \u003ccite>(Claire Harbage/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An area nearly the size of New Orleans is already flooded downstream of Giacomazzi’s farm. State officials have warned more water is coming as warmer temperatures cause a record Sierra Nevada snowpack to melt. This week, however, they said some communities, such as Corcoran, should be safe from rising floodwaters because of levee improvements, favorable weather and efforts to spread the water upstream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But capturing the extra water is an opportunity that Giacomazzi worries is being missed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The condition we find ourselves in right now is that there are billions of gallons of water just flowing right through us, right on by, and heading down and filling the Tulare Lake,” Giacomazzi said, referencing the long-dried lake — once the largest west of the Mississippi River — that has come roaring back to life during this winter’s storms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California water officials are scrambling to catch as much of the floodwaters as they can. In January, as a series of atmospheric river storms \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/01/11/1148333208/storms-keep-pummeling-california-causing-widespread-flooding-and-evacuations\">blasted the state\u003c/a> with rain and snow, the state’s Department of Water Resources announced it was \u003ca href=\"https://water.ca.gov/News/News-Releases/2023/Jan-23/State-Agencies-Fast-track-Groundwater-Recharge-Pilot-Project\">accelerating permitting\u003c/a> for projects that put water back into the aquifers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Projects that capture available precipitation, stormwater or floodwaters to recharge depleted groundwater basins need to be ready to capture high flows when they are available during each wet season,” said Karla Nemeth, the agency’s director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982779\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1982779 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230414-_dsc7388_slide-e1a31163a760bed0b4e1633bae0c23bc8a41adf1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A small, gray donkey, as well as a donkey in complete shadow in the foreground, look out at a gravel road through a low wire fence on a sunny day. Farm buildings and green-and-brown lots lay beyond the road.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230414-_dsc7388_slide-e1a31163a760bed0b4e1633bae0c23bc8a41adf1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230414-_dsc7388_slide-e1a31163a760bed0b4e1633bae0c23bc8a41adf1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230414-_dsc7388_slide-e1a31163a760bed0b4e1633bae0c23bc8a41adf1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230414-_dsc7388_slide-e1a31163a760bed0b4e1633bae0c23bc8a41adf1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230414-_dsc7388_slide-e1a31163a760bed0b4e1633bae0c23bc8a41adf1-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230414-_dsc7388_slide-e1a31163a760bed0b4e1633bae0c23bc8a41adf1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230414-_dsc7388_slide-e1a31163a760bed0b4e1633bae0c23bc8a41adf1-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Giacomazzi’s donkeys look out over some of the farmland. \u003ccite>(Claire Harbage/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Two months later, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2023/03/10/governor-newsom-issues-executive-order-to-use-floodwater-to-recharge-and-store-groundwater/\">an executive order\u003c/a> making it easier for farmers to divert water onto their lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in some parts of the Central Valley, like Giacomazzi’s, bureaucracy, water rights and a history of over-pumping are creating roadblocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The issue with these water systems in California is that every couple of miles in this state, it’s a completely different, independently operated situation,” Giacomazzi said. “There isn’t really a coordinating body that sits over the top if that says, ‘Here’s what we need to do. Let’s do it together.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A test for California’s climate future\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California has always experienced dramatic swings from drought to flood. Those \u003ca href=\"https://resources.ca.gov/-/media/CNRA-Website/Files/Initiatives/Water-Resilience/CA-Water-Supply-Strategy.pdf\">swings are expected to become more severe (PDF)\u003c/a> as temperatures rise due to human-caused climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that sense, the situation playing out in California this year could be a window into the state’s climate future, said Daniel Mountjoy, director of resource stewardship for Sustainable Conservation, a California-based nonprofit water group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve worked in water my entire career and one of our sayings is never waste a good crisis,” he said, standing next to a field of purposely flooded grapevines north of Fresno. “This is our chance for everyone to be aware of what’s possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982780\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1982780 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1148_slide-fb7786a4ff4d53e45a28bd5a1e545f524af71028-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two men, one white and one Black, both wearing baseball caps and unzipped jackets, talk to each other, one gesturing toward the vineyard they stand in with one arm raised.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1148_slide-fb7786a4ff4d53e45a28bd5a1e545f524af71028-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1148_slide-fb7786a4ff4d53e45a28bd5a1e545f524af71028-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1148_slide-fb7786a4ff4d53e45a28bd5a1e545f524af71028-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1148_slide-fb7786a4ff4d53e45a28bd5a1e545f524af71028-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1148_slide-fb7786a4ff4d53e45a28bd5a1e545f524af71028-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1148_slide-fb7786a4ff4d53e45a28bd5a1e545f524af71028-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1148_slide-fb7786a4ff4d53e45a28bd5a1e545f524af71028-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Mountjoy (left), director of resource stewardship for Sustainable Conservation, a California-based nonprofit water group, talks with a colleague at a vineyard that is sinking water into the ground. \u003ccite>(Claire Harbage/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California water experts like Mountjoy, hydrologists and environmental watchdog groups have long warned that the Central Valley’s use of groundwater was unsustainable. Parts of the southern Central Valley that are now flooded have sunk by as much as 28 feet over the last few decades — deflated like punctured balloons — because so much water has been pumped from the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state aimed to address the problem with legislation in 2014 that requires local water agencies to bring their underground accounts into balance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to have to put in as much as we pump out,” said Eric Holder, an irrigation research assistant with the University of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982781\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1982781\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230411-_dsc9551_slide-f61a1b40b9d27519eefd649a788dcaad9238baa4-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Water is seen flowing out of pipes at a farm. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230411-_dsc9551_slide-f61a1b40b9d27519eefd649a788dcaad9238baa4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230411-_dsc9551_slide-f61a1b40b9d27519eefd649a788dcaad9238baa4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230411-_dsc9551_slide-f61a1b40b9d27519eefd649a788dcaad9238baa4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230411-_dsc9551_slide-f61a1b40b9d27519eefd649a788dcaad9238baa4-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230411-_dsc9551_slide-f61a1b40b9d27519eefd649a788dcaad9238baa4-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230411-_dsc9551_slide-f61a1b40b9d27519eefd649a788dcaad9238baa4-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230411-_dsc9551_slide-f61a1b40b9d27519eefd649a788dcaad9238baa4-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Water floods a field at an irrigation project run by the University of California.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cutting groundwater use could be painful. A study by the Public Policy Institute of California last year found that an\u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/priorities-for-californias-water/\"> estimated 500,000 acres\u003c/a> of farmland would have to go unplanted in the southern Central Valley over the next 20 years to help restore water underground. That’s even with increased capturing of stormwaters in a year like this. The region produces billions of dollars in almonds, pistachios, dairy and other produce every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got to find a safe landing pattern,” Mountjoy said. “Come up with a way to reduce the pumping or increase the groundwater supply.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Some farmers are flooding their fields\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>With so much of the state awash in water, the focus in California is on increasing groundwater supply — stashing more into the bank account — by flooding farmland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982782\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1982782 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1022_slide-a0b041ac2be62456d3bbd1691767f8944145102f-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Most of the frame is taken up by slightly blurry, bright green grape leaves in the foreground. Beyond them, on the ground, two cement cisterns pour water onto the ground, with the dry land to the left looking light brown and dusty, and the wet land to the right looking dark brown and muddy.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1022_slide-a0b041ac2be62456d3bbd1691767f8944145102f-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1022_slide-a0b041ac2be62456d3bbd1691767f8944145102f-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1022_slide-a0b041ac2be62456d3bbd1691767f8944145102f-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1022_slide-a0b041ac2be62456d3bbd1691767f8944145102f-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1022_slide-a0b041ac2be62456d3bbd1691767f8944145102f-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1022_slide-a0b041ac2be62456d3bbd1691767f8944145102f-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1022_slide-a0b041ac2be62456d3bbd1691767f8944145102f-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Water is pumped into a vineyard, flooding the field. In some water districts, like Madera County’s in the heart of the Central Valley, farmers are being incentivized to use their existing infrastructure to flood their fields with free or reduced-cost water. \u003ccite>(Claire Harbage/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In some areas, like Giacomazzi’s, there isn’t enough incentive for farmers to flood their fields, or the infrastructure doesn’t exist to divert water from canals and streams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It takes a lot of money to excavate a basin and build the structures to divert water off the system,” said Mark Larsen, general manager of the Kaweah Delta Water Conservation District. “And then you have it sitting [dry] most of the time waiting for a year like this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some water districts, like Madera County’s in the heart of the Central Valley, farmers are being incentivized to use their existing infrastructure to flood their fields with free or reduced-cost water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s our way to motivate people to take that water, spread it and get that water in the ground when it’s available in years like this,” said Thomas Greci, general manager of the Madera Irrigation District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982783\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1982783 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1077_slide-e34560e26d1272886404c7d51574dffa21c9998d-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A white man with a beard, wearing a baseball cap, a long-sleeved button-up powder blue shirt, blue jeans, and boots stands in a vineyard with his hands in his pockets, looking off to the side.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1077_slide-e34560e26d1272886404c7d51574dffa21c9998d-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1077_slide-e34560e26d1272886404c7d51574dffa21c9998d-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1077_slide-e34560e26d1272886404c7d51574dffa21c9998d-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1077_slide-e34560e26d1272886404c7d51574dffa21c9998d-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1077_slide-e34560e26d1272886404c7d51574dffa21c9998d-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1077_slide-e34560e26d1272886404c7d51574dffa21c9998d-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1077_slide-e34560e26d1272886404c7d51574dffa21c9998d-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick Davis stands in the vineyard he owns with his twin brother outside Madera. He’s been dumping water on his grapevines since the heavy rains started this winter, sinking more than four times the amount of water he typically uses on the vines into the ground. \u003ccite>(Claire Harbage/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nick Davis, who owns a vineyard with his twin brother outside Madera, has decided to participate. He’s been dumping water on his grapevines since the heavy rains started this winter, sinking more than four times the amount of water he typically uses on the vines into the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re all skeptical about trying new things,” Davis said. “But we feel it’s important to just do our part and put it back in the ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s hopeful the state will give him credit for all the water he’s returning to the aquifer, or pay him for the water he’s deposited. Incentives like that, Davis said, would make other farmers think more seriously about flooding their fields in the current moment and in wet years to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand that we are part of the problem,” Davis said. “But we also want to be part of the solution when it’s possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/\">https://www.npr.org\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=California+wants+to+store+floodwaters+underground.+It%27s+harder+than+it+sounds+&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Even during epic floods, California is trying to prepare for the next drought by capturing water from this year's epic winter storms.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704846005,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":1380},"headData":{"title":"California Wants to Store Floodwaters Underground. It's Harder Than It Sounds | KQED","description":"Even during epic floods, California is trying to prepare for the next drought by capturing water from this year's epic winter storms.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"California Wants to Store Floodwaters Underground. It's Harder Than It Sounds","datePublished":"2023-05-24T19:15:36.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-10T00:20:05.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"source":"NPR","sourceUrl":"https://www.npr.org","sticky":false,"nprImageCredit":"Claire Harbage","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/348779465/nathan-rott\">Nathan Rott\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/643722609/claire-harbage\">Claire Harbage\u003c/a>","nprImageAgency":"NPR","nprStoryId":"1177216080","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=1177216080&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2023/05/24/1177216080/california-wants-to-store-floodwaters-underground-its-harder-than-it-sounds?ft=nprml&f=1177216080","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Wed, 24 May 2023 08:28:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Wed, 24 May 2023 06:00:45 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Wed, 24 May 2023 08:28:52 -0400","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/science/1982776/california-wants-to-store-floodwaters-underground-its-harder-than-it-sounds","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For much of the last few decades, when the sky didn’t produce enough water for his cows and crops, Dino Giacomazzi — like most farmers in California’s southern Central Valley — pumped it from the earth. Underground aquifers, vast bank accounts of stored water, were drained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, after a historically wet winter, Giacomazzi and the state of California want to put some of that water back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a no-brainer, win-win, multibenefit opportunity,” said Giacomazzi, standing on his Central Valley farm, which depends on groundwater to grow almonds, lettuce and tomatoes for pizza sauce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More water stored underground means fewer flooded farms, and more water available to farmers like him during the next inevitable drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982778\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1982778 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230414-_dsc7315_slide-f4ad38703f1ea83d5235b8f204ab33ca99410025-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A white man with dark brown hair and black sunglasses, wearing a black puffer jacket with an orange collared shirt and jeans, stands on a farm with a to-go cup in his hand. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230414-_dsc7315_slide-f4ad38703f1ea83d5235b8f204ab33ca99410025-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230414-_dsc7315_slide-f4ad38703f1ea83d5235b8f204ab33ca99410025-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230414-_dsc7315_slide-f4ad38703f1ea83d5235b8f204ab33ca99410025-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230414-_dsc7315_slide-f4ad38703f1ea83d5235b8f204ab33ca99410025-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230414-_dsc7315_slide-f4ad38703f1ea83d5235b8f204ab33ca99410025-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230414-_dsc7315_slide-f4ad38703f1ea83d5235b8f204ab33ca99410025-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230414-_dsc7315_slide-f4ad38703f1ea83d5235b8f204ab33ca99410025-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dino Giacomazzi stands on his Central Valley farm, which depends on groundwater to grow almonds, lettuce and tomatoes for pizza sauce. \u003ccite>(Claire Harbage/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An area nearly the size of New Orleans is already flooded downstream of Giacomazzi’s farm. State officials have warned more water is coming as warmer temperatures cause a record Sierra Nevada snowpack to melt. This week, however, they said some communities, such as Corcoran, should be safe from rising floodwaters because of levee improvements, favorable weather and efforts to spread the water upstream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But capturing the extra water is an opportunity that Giacomazzi worries is being missed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The condition we find ourselves in right now is that there are billions of gallons of water just flowing right through us, right on by, and heading down and filling the Tulare Lake,” Giacomazzi said, referencing the long-dried lake — once the largest west of the Mississippi River — that has come roaring back to life during this winter’s storms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California water officials are scrambling to catch as much of the floodwaters as they can. In January, as a series of atmospheric river storms \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/01/11/1148333208/storms-keep-pummeling-california-causing-widespread-flooding-and-evacuations\">blasted the state\u003c/a> with rain and snow, the state’s Department of Water Resources announced it was \u003ca href=\"https://water.ca.gov/News/News-Releases/2023/Jan-23/State-Agencies-Fast-track-Groundwater-Recharge-Pilot-Project\">accelerating permitting\u003c/a> for projects that put water back into the aquifers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Projects that capture available precipitation, stormwater or floodwaters to recharge depleted groundwater basins need to be ready to capture high flows when they are available during each wet season,” said Karla Nemeth, the agency’s director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982779\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1982779 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230414-_dsc7388_slide-e1a31163a760bed0b4e1633bae0c23bc8a41adf1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A small, gray donkey, as well as a donkey in complete shadow in the foreground, look out at a gravel road through a low wire fence on a sunny day. Farm buildings and green-and-brown lots lay beyond the road.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230414-_dsc7388_slide-e1a31163a760bed0b4e1633bae0c23bc8a41adf1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230414-_dsc7388_slide-e1a31163a760bed0b4e1633bae0c23bc8a41adf1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230414-_dsc7388_slide-e1a31163a760bed0b4e1633bae0c23bc8a41adf1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230414-_dsc7388_slide-e1a31163a760bed0b4e1633bae0c23bc8a41adf1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230414-_dsc7388_slide-e1a31163a760bed0b4e1633bae0c23bc8a41adf1-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230414-_dsc7388_slide-e1a31163a760bed0b4e1633bae0c23bc8a41adf1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230414-_dsc7388_slide-e1a31163a760bed0b4e1633bae0c23bc8a41adf1-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Giacomazzi’s donkeys look out over some of the farmland. \u003ccite>(Claire Harbage/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Two months later, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2023/03/10/governor-newsom-issues-executive-order-to-use-floodwater-to-recharge-and-store-groundwater/\">an executive order\u003c/a> making it easier for farmers to divert water onto their lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in some parts of the Central Valley, like Giacomazzi’s, bureaucracy, water rights and a history of over-pumping are creating roadblocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The issue with these water systems in California is that every couple of miles in this state, it’s a completely different, independently operated situation,” Giacomazzi said. “There isn’t really a coordinating body that sits over the top if that says, ‘Here’s what we need to do. Let’s do it together.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A test for California’s climate future\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California has always experienced dramatic swings from drought to flood. Those \u003ca href=\"https://resources.ca.gov/-/media/CNRA-Website/Files/Initiatives/Water-Resilience/CA-Water-Supply-Strategy.pdf\">swings are expected to become more severe (PDF)\u003c/a> as temperatures rise due to human-caused climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that sense, the situation playing out in California this year could be a window into the state’s climate future, said Daniel Mountjoy, director of resource stewardship for Sustainable Conservation, a California-based nonprofit water group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve worked in water my entire career and one of our sayings is never waste a good crisis,” he said, standing next to a field of purposely flooded grapevines north of Fresno. “This is our chance for everyone to be aware of what’s possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982780\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1982780 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1148_slide-fb7786a4ff4d53e45a28bd5a1e545f524af71028-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two men, one white and one Black, both wearing baseball caps and unzipped jackets, talk to each other, one gesturing toward the vineyard they stand in with one arm raised.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1148_slide-fb7786a4ff4d53e45a28bd5a1e545f524af71028-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1148_slide-fb7786a4ff4d53e45a28bd5a1e545f524af71028-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1148_slide-fb7786a4ff4d53e45a28bd5a1e545f524af71028-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1148_slide-fb7786a4ff4d53e45a28bd5a1e545f524af71028-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1148_slide-fb7786a4ff4d53e45a28bd5a1e545f524af71028-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1148_slide-fb7786a4ff4d53e45a28bd5a1e545f524af71028-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1148_slide-fb7786a4ff4d53e45a28bd5a1e545f524af71028-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Mountjoy (left), director of resource stewardship for Sustainable Conservation, a California-based nonprofit water group, talks with a colleague at a vineyard that is sinking water into the ground. \u003ccite>(Claire Harbage/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California water experts like Mountjoy, hydrologists and environmental watchdog groups have long warned that the Central Valley’s use of groundwater was unsustainable. Parts of the southern Central Valley that are now flooded have sunk by as much as 28 feet over the last few decades — deflated like punctured balloons — because so much water has been pumped from the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state aimed to address the problem with legislation in 2014 that requires local water agencies to bring their underground accounts into balance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to have to put in as much as we pump out,” said Eric Holder, an irrigation research assistant with the University of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982781\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1982781\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230411-_dsc9551_slide-f61a1b40b9d27519eefd649a788dcaad9238baa4-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Water is seen flowing out of pipes at a farm. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230411-_dsc9551_slide-f61a1b40b9d27519eefd649a788dcaad9238baa4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230411-_dsc9551_slide-f61a1b40b9d27519eefd649a788dcaad9238baa4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230411-_dsc9551_slide-f61a1b40b9d27519eefd649a788dcaad9238baa4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230411-_dsc9551_slide-f61a1b40b9d27519eefd649a788dcaad9238baa4-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230411-_dsc9551_slide-f61a1b40b9d27519eefd649a788dcaad9238baa4-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230411-_dsc9551_slide-f61a1b40b9d27519eefd649a788dcaad9238baa4-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230411-_dsc9551_slide-f61a1b40b9d27519eefd649a788dcaad9238baa4-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Water floods a field at an irrigation project run by the University of California.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cutting groundwater use could be painful. A study by the Public Policy Institute of California last year found that an\u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/priorities-for-californias-water/\"> estimated 500,000 acres\u003c/a> of farmland would have to go unplanted in the southern Central Valley over the next 20 years to help restore water underground. That’s even with increased capturing of stormwaters in a year like this. The region produces billions of dollars in almonds, pistachios, dairy and other produce every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got to find a safe landing pattern,” Mountjoy said. “Come up with a way to reduce the pumping or increase the groundwater supply.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Some farmers are flooding their fields\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>With so much of the state awash in water, the focus in California is on increasing groundwater supply — stashing more into the bank account — by flooding farmland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982782\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1982782 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1022_slide-a0b041ac2be62456d3bbd1691767f8944145102f-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Most of the frame is taken up by slightly blurry, bright green grape leaves in the foreground. Beyond them, on the ground, two cement cisterns pour water onto the ground, with the dry land to the left looking light brown and dusty, and the wet land to the right looking dark brown and muddy.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1022_slide-a0b041ac2be62456d3bbd1691767f8944145102f-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1022_slide-a0b041ac2be62456d3bbd1691767f8944145102f-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1022_slide-a0b041ac2be62456d3bbd1691767f8944145102f-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1022_slide-a0b041ac2be62456d3bbd1691767f8944145102f-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1022_slide-a0b041ac2be62456d3bbd1691767f8944145102f-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1022_slide-a0b041ac2be62456d3bbd1691767f8944145102f-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1022_slide-a0b041ac2be62456d3bbd1691767f8944145102f-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Water is pumped into a vineyard, flooding the field. In some water districts, like Madera County’s in the heart of the Central Valley, farmers are being incentivized to use their existing infrastructure to flood their fields with free or reduced-cost water. \u003ccite>(Claire Harbage/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In some areas, like Giacomazzi’s, there isn’t enough incentive for farmers to flood their fields, or the infrastructure doesn’t exist to divert water from canals and streams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It takes a lot of money to excavate a basin and build the structures to divert water off the system,” said Mark Larsen, general manager of the Kaweah Delta Water Conservation District. “And then you have it sitting [dry] most of the time waiting for a year like this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some water districts, like Madera County’s in the heart of the Central Valley, farmers are being incentivized to use their existing infrastructure to flood their fields with free or reduced-cost water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s our way to motivate people to take that water, spread it and get that water in the ground when it’s available in years like this,” said Thomas Greci, general manager of the Madera Irrigation District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982783\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1982783 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1077_slide-e34560e26d1272886404c7d51574dffa21c9998d-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A white man with a beard, wearing a baseball cap, a long-sleeved button-up powder blue shirt, blue jeans, and boots stands in a vineyard with his hands in his pockets, looking off to the side.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1077_slide-e34560e26d1272886404c7d51574dffa21c9998d-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1077_slide-e34560e26d1272886404c7d51574dffa21c9998d-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1077_slide-e34560e26d1272886404c7d51574dffa21c9998d-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1077_slide-e34560e26d1272886404c7d51574dffa21c9998d-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1077_slide-e34560e26d1272886404c7d51574dffa21c9998d-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1077_slide-e34560e26d1272886404c7d51574dffa21c9998d-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/20230412-_dsc1077_slide-e34560e26d1272886404c7d51574dffa21c9998d-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick Davis stands in the vineyard he owns with his twin brother outside Madera. He’s been dumping water on his grapevines since the heavy rains started this winter, sinking more than four times the amount of water he typically uses on the vines into the ground. \u003ccite>(Claire Harbage/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nick Davis, who owns a vineyard with his twin brother outside Madera, has decided to participate. He’s been dumping water on his grapevines since the heavy rains started this winter, sinking more than four times the amount of water he typically uses on the vines into the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re all skeptical about trying new things,” Davis said. “But we feel it’s important to just do our part and put it back in the ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s hopeful the state will give him credit for all the water he’s returning to the aquifer, or pay him for the water he’s deposited. Incentives like that, Davis said, would make other farmers think more seriously about flooding their fields in the current moment and in wet years to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand that we are part of the problem,” Davis said. “But we also want to be part of the solution when it’s possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/\">https://www.npr.org\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=California+wants+to+store+floodwaters+underground.+It%27s+harder+than+it+sounds+&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1982776/california-wants-to-store-floodwaters-underground-its-harder-than-it-sounds","authors":["byline_science_1982776"],"categories":["science_31","science_35","science_40","science_4450","science_98"],"tags":["science_3905","science_194","science_4414","science_3448","science_490","science_539"],"featImg":"science_1982777","label":"source_science_1982776"},"science_1981241":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1981241","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1981241","score":null,"sort":[1673483687000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"heavy-rain-is-still-hitting-california-a-few-reservoirs-figured-out-how-to-capture-more-for-drought","title":"Heavy Rain Is Still Hitting California. A Few Reservoirs Figured Out How to Capture More for Drought","publishDate":1673483687,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Heavy Rain Is Still Hitting California. A Few Reservoirs Figured Out How to Capture More for Drought | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Despite several weeks of torrential rain and flooding, California is still facing a severe multi-year drought. That has many people thinking about how to better capture winter floodwaters to last through the dry season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An innovative approach at two California reservoirs could help boost the state’s water supply, potentially marking a larger shift from decades-old water management approaches to a system that can quickly adapt to precipitation in a changing climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At issue are rules that, at face value, seem perplexing to many Californians. Even in a chronically dry state, reservoirs are not allowed to fill up in the winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the late fall and winter, most are required to release water if they get too full, sometimes emptying out almost by half. That’s because the empty space is crucial if an intense storm hits. Reservoirs collect runoff and prevent it from flooding downstream cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, in some years, reservoirs preemptively empty out with little need if no major storms materialize. That means valuable water is lost for potentially drier months ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two sites, Folsom Reservoir and Lake Mendocino, are rethinking this by using weather forecasts to guide their operations. Instead of sticking to set rules, they only empty out if a major storm is forecasted for the days ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parade of major storms that have hit California, known as atmospheric rivers, is providing a key test for these systems. Water experts say it’s showing that “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/03/18/469799456/in-california-dealing-with-a-drought-and-preparing-for-a-flood\">forecast-informed” reservoir operations\u003c/a> have the potential to reshape how water is stored across the West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1981243\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1981243\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/view-from-g-iv-flying-over-ar-system-during-mission-010923-credit-rich-henning-noaa_custom-87334cc6caa619682ee57703124d39d5e27efe25-800x523.jpg\" alt=\"The NOAA Hurricane Hunters plane wing seen above clouds in the clear sky.\" width=\"800\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/view-from-g-iv-flying-over-ar-system-during-mission-010923-credit-rich-henning-noaa_custom-87334cc6caa619682ee57703124d39d5e27efe25-800x523.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/view-from-g-iv-flying-over-ar-system-during-mission-010923-credit-rich-henning-noaa_custom-87334cc6caa619682ee57703124d39d5e27efe25-1020x667.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/view-from-g-iv-flying-over-ar-system-during-mission-010923-credit-rich-henning-noaa_custom-87334cc6caa619682ee57703124d39d5e27efe25-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/view-from-g-iv-flying-over-ar-system-during-mission-010923-credit-rich-henning-noaa_custom-87334cc6caa619682ee57703124d39d5e27efe25-768x502.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/view-from-g-iv-flying-over-ar-system-during-mission-010923-credit-rich-henning-noaa_custom-87334cc6caa619682ee57703124d39d5e27efe25-1536x1004.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/view-from-g-iv-flying-over-ar-system-during-mission-010923-credit-rich-henning-noaa_custom-87334cc6caa619682ee57703124d39d5e27efe25-2048x1339.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/view-from-g-iv-flying-over-ar-system-during-mission-010923-credit-rich-henning-noaa_custom-87334cc6caa619682ee57703124d39d5e27efe25-1920x1255.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The NOAA Hurricane Hunters fly above an atmospheric river on January 9th, 2023, preparing to drop instruments into the storm to aid with weather forecasts. \u003ccite>(Rich Henning/NOAA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We have to use every drop of water that much more effectively,” says Marty Ralph, director for the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. “There’s not much to spare, and we need to do the best we can to use that water efficiently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Making water decisions in real-time\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Most reservoirs have two jobs that are completely at odds with each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the one hand, reservoirs need to be as full as possible to provide water for people and wildlife. On the other, staying empty ensures they can safely handle the runoff from major storms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stakes are huge for walking that line. If a dam is overwhelmed, potentially hundreds of thousands of people risk being flooded downstream. Stay too empty, and cities and agriculture run short of water when a drought hits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historically, reservoirs used fixed rules to guide those decisions, most created decades ago before human-induced climate change began fueling extreme weather. At Folsom Reservoir outside Sacramento, California, the water level could only reach 60 percent full in the winter. If more water flowed in, it had to be released. Some winters, where major storms stopped arriving, that water could have been safely stored and used later during the long, dry summer months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/03/18/469799456/in-california-dealing-with-a-drought-and-preparing-for-a-flood\">many years of study\u003c/a>, water managers remade that system in 2019, working with the federal Army Corps of Engineers which is responsible for flood safety. Now, the reservoir can stay 20 percent fuller in the winter, though not completely full. Then, if a major storm appears, the reservoir makes space by releasing water three to five days ahead of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Back when the dams were built, it was a pretty wise choice in my opinion not to use weather forecasts because they weren’t very good,” Ralph says. “But now with satellites and radars and models and science, there’s been a lot of improvements so it seems sensible to give it a try.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1981244\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1981244\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/2023_01_06_kj_0080_folsom_lake_custom-fe2aefafcdbe3180e688c7e4f59b5a32bcfea412-800x506.jpg\" alt=\"Image shows lake level conditions surrounding Granite Bay Main Beach at Folsom Lake in Placer County, California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/2023_01_06_kj_0080_folsom_lake_custom-fe2aefafcdbe3180e688c7e4f59b5a32bcfea412-800x506.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/2023_01_06_kj_0080_folsom_lake_custom-fe2aefafcdbe3180e688c7e4f59b5a32bcfea412-1020x646.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/2023_01_06_kj_0080_folsom_lake_custom-fe2aefafcdbe3180e688c7e4f59b5a32bcfea412-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/2023_01_06_kj_0080_folsom_lake_custom-fe2aefafcdbe3180e688c7e4f59b5a32bcfea412-768x486.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/2023_01_06_kj_0080_folsom_lake_custom-fe2aefafcdbe3180e688c7e4f59b5a32bcfea412-1536x972.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/2023_01_06_kj_0080_folsom_lake_custom-fe2aefafcdbe3180e688c7e4f59b5a32bcfea412-2048x1296.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/2023_01_06_kj_0080_folsom_lake_custom-fe2aefafcdbe3180e688c7e4f59b5a32bcfea412-1920x1215.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">By using flexible rules, Folsom Lake outside Sacramento, California could hold onto 20 percent more water by the summer, helping the state with its severe drought. \u003ccite>(Kenneth James/California Department of Water Resources)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The key is spotting atmospheric rivers, massive plumes of moisture that stretch hundreds of miles across the Pacific. Predicting where they’ll land in California is crucial for forecasting how much runoff a reservoir will see. The relentless storms hitting the state this winter means water managers are continually recalibrating how much water Folsom Reservoir can hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re constantly rerunning these ensemble forecasts for river flows,” says Drew Lessard, who manages Folsom Reservoir at the Central California office of the Bureau of Reclamation. “So it’s working as intended, but it’s certainly pretty dynamic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Other Western reservoirs looking at dynamic methods\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Closer to the Bay Area, Lake Mendocino is \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomawater.org/firo\">also using forecast-informed operations\u003c/a>. A handful of other California reservoirs are in the process of studying it as well. The federal Bureau of Reclamation, the largest provider of water for utilities in the country, says it’s looking into other places where it might be a good fit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The climate is changing, hydrology is changing, weather patterns are changing,” says David Raff, chief engineer at the Bureau of Reclamation. “In addition to that, the demand for water is increasing in the Western United States. When you put those things together, there is a significant interest to optimize operations in all of our reservoirs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The method may not be a good fit in all Western reservoirs, however. Some are affected by other weather patterns or melting snow that’s harder to predict than California’s weather. Other reservoirs, like on the Colorado River, have the capacity to hold so much water that releasing water during the flood season isn’t much of an issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water experts say as the climate gets hotter, Western water managers will need to use real-time data to be more responsive to the changing conditions. California is expected to see more “weather whiplash,” the abrupt swings from extreme dry periods to extreme floods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Longer droughts, deeper droughts and bigger storms between them,” Ralph says. “That’s what Mother Nature is going to deliver us under a warmer climate. So we need to prepare. There’s a lot at stake and these are methods that could really help us with climate adaptation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Heavy+rain+is+still+hitting+California.+A+few+reservoirs+figured+out+how+to+capture+more+for+drought&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Decades-old rules mean most reservoirs aren't allowed to fill up in the winter. A new approach using weather forecasts is helping some save more water to help with California's drought.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704846116,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":1075},"headData":{"title":"Heavy Rain Is Still Hitting California. 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That has many people thinking about how to better capture winter floodwaters to last through the dry season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An innovative approach at two California reservoirs could help boost the state’s water supply, potentially marking a larger shift from decades-old water management approaches to a system that can quickly adapt to precipitation in a changing climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At issue are rules that, at face value, seem perplexing to many Californians. Even in a chronically dry state, reservoirs are not allowed to fill up in the winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the late fall and winter, most are required to release water if they get too full, sometimes emptying out almost by half. That’s because the empty space is crucial if an intense storm hits. Reservoirs collect runoff and prevent it from flooding downstream cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, in some years, reservoirs preemptively empty out with little need if no major storms materialize. That means valuable water is lost for potentially drier months ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two sites, Folsom Reservoir and Lake Mendocino, are rethinking this by using weather forecasts to guide their operations. Instead of sticking to set rules, they only empty out if a major storm is forecasted for the days ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parade of major storms that have hit California, known as atmospheric rivers, is providing a key test for these systems. Water experts say it’s showing that “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/03/18/469799456/in-california-dealing-with-a-drought-and-preparing-for-a-flood\">forecast-informed” reservoir operations\u003c/a> have the potential to reshape how water is stored across the West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1981243\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1981243\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/view-from-g-iv-flying-over-ar-system-during-mission-010923-credit-rich-henning-noaa_custom-87334cc6caa619682ee57703124d39d5e27efe25-800x523.jpg\" alt=\"The NOAA Hurricane Hunters plane wing seen above clouds in the clear sky.\" width=\"800\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/view-from-g-iv-flying-over-ar-system-during-mission-010923-credit-rich-henning-noaa_custom-87334cc6caa619682ee57703124d39d5e27efe25-800x523.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/view-from-g-iv-flying-over-ar-system-during-mission-010923-credit-rich-henning-noaa_custom-87334cc6caa619682ee57703124d39d5e27efe25-1020x667.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/view-from-g-iv-flying-over-ar-system-during-mission-010923-credit-rich-henning-noaa_custom-87334cc6caa619682ee57703124d39d5e27efe25-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/view-from-g-iv-flying-over-ar-system-during-mission-010923-credit-rich-henning-noaa_custom-87334cc6caa619682ee57703124d39d5e27efe25-768x502.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/view-from-g-iv-flying-over-ar-system-during-mission-010923-credit-rich-henning-noaa_custom-87334cc6caa619682ee57703124d39d5e27efe25-1536x1004.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/view-from-g-iv-flying-over-ar-system-during-mission-010923-credit-rich-henning-noaa_custom-87334cc6caa619682ee57703124d39d5e27efe25-2048x1339.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/view-from-g-iv-flying-over-ar-system-during-mission-010923-credit-rich-henning-noaa_custom-87334cc6caa619682ee57703124d39d5e27efe25-1920x1255.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The NOAA Hurricane Hunters fly above an atmospheric river on January 9th, 2023, preparing to drop instruments into the storm to aid with weather forecasts. \u003ccite>(Rich Henning/NOAA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We have to use every drop of water that much more effectively,” says Marty Ralph, director for the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. “There’s not much to spare, and we need to do the best we can to use that water efficiently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Making water decisions in real-time\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Most reservoirs have two jobs that are completely at odds with each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the one hand, reservoirs need to be as full as possible to provide water for people and wildlife. On the other, staying empty ensures they can safely handle the runoff from major storms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stakes are huge for walking that line. If a dam is overwhelmed, potentially hundreds of thousands of people risk being flooded downstream. Stay too empty, and cities and agriculture run short of water when a drought hits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historically, reservoirs used fixed rules to guide those decisions, most created decades ago before human-induced climate change began fueling extreme weather. At Folsom Reservoir outside Sacramento, California, the water level could only reach 60 percent full in the winter. If more water flowed in, it had to be released. Some winters, where major storms stopped arriving, that water could have been safely stored and used later during the long, dry summer months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/03/18/469799456/in-california-dealing-with-a-drought-and-preparing-for-a-flood\">many years of study\u003c/a>, water managers remade that system in 2019, working with the federal Army Corps of Engineers which is responsible for flood safety. Now, the reservoir can stay 20 percent fuller in the winter, though not completely full. Then, if a major storm appears, the reservoir makes space by releasing water three to five days ahead of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Back when the dams were built, it was a pretty wise choice in my opinion not to use weather forecasts because they weren’t very good,” Ralph says. “But now with satellites and radars and models and science, there’s been a lot of improvements so it seems sensible to give it a try.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1981244\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1981244\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/2023_01_06_kj_0080_folsom_lake_custom-fe2aefafcdbe3180e688c7e4f59b5a32bcfea412-800x506.jpg\" alt=\"Image shows lake level conditions surrounding Granite Bay Main Beach at Folsom Lake in Placer County, California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/2023_01_06_kj_0080_folsom_lake_custom-fe2aefafcdbe3180e688c7e4f59b5a32bcfea412-800x506.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/2023_01_06_kj_0080_folsom_lake_custom-fe2aefafcdbe3180e688c7e4f59b5a32bcfea412-1020x646.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/2023_01_06_kj_0080_folsom_lake_custom-fe2aefafcdbe3180e688c7e4f59b5a32bcfea412-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/2023_01_06_kj_0080_folsom_lake_custom-fe2aefafcdbe3180e688c7e4f59b5a32bcfea412-768x486.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/2023_01_06_kj_0080_folsom_lake_custom-fe2aefafcdbe3180e688c7e4f59b5a32bcfea412-1536x972.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/2023_01_06_kj_0080_folsom_lake_custom-fe2aefafcdbe3180e688c7e4f59b5a32bcfea412-2048x1296.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/2023_01_06_kj_0080_folsom_lake_custom-fe2aefafcdbe3180e688c7e4f59b5a32bcfea412-1920x1215.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">By using flexible rules, Folsom Lake outside Sacramento, California could hold onto 20 percent more water by the summer, helping the state with its severe drought. \u003ccite>(Kenneth James/California Department of Water Resources)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The key is spotting atmospheric rivers, massive plumes of moisture that stretch hundreds of miles across the Pacific. Predicting where they’ll land in California is crucial for forecasting how much runoff a reservoir will see. The relentless storms hitting the state this winter means water managers are continually recalibrating how much water Folsom Reservoir can hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re constantly rerunning these ensemble forecasts for river flows,” says Drew Lessard, who manages Folsom Reservoir at the Central California office of the Bureau of Reclamation. “So it’s working as intended, but it’s certainly pretty dynamic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Other Western reservoirs looking at dynamic methods\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Closer to the Bay Area, Lake Mendocino is \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomawater.org/firo\">also using forecast-informed operations\u003c/a>. A handful of other California reservoirs are in the process of studying it as well. The federal Bureau of Reclamation, the largest provider of water for utilities in the country, says it’s looking into other places where it might be a good fit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The climate is changing, hydrology is changing, weather patterns are changing,” says David Raff, chief engineer at the Bureau of Reclamation. “In addition to that, the demand for water is increasing in the Western United States. When you put those things together, there is a significant interest to optimize operations in all of our reservoirs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The method may not be a good fit in all Western reservoirs, however. Some are affected by other weather patterns or melting snow that’s harder to predict than California’s weather. Other reservoirs, like on the Colorado River, have the capacity to hold so much water that releasing water during the flood season isn’t much of an issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water experts say as the climate gets hotter, Western water managers will need to use real-time data to be more responsive to the changing conditions. California is expected to see more “weather whiplash,” the abrupt swings from extreme dry periods to extreme floods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Longer droughts, deeper droughts and bigger storms between them,” Ralph says. “That’s what Mother Nature is going to deliver us under a warmer climate. So we need to prepare. There’s a lot at stake and these are methods that could really help us with climate adaptation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Heavy+rain+is+still+hitting+California.+A+few+reservoirs+figured+out+how+to+capture+more+for+drought&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1981241/heavy-rain-is-still-hitting-california-a-few-reservoirs-figured-out-how-to-capture-more-for-drought","authors":["byline_science_1981241"],"categories":["science_31","science_40","science_4450"],"tags":["science_2227","science_1622","science_182","science_194","science_572","science_539","science_201"],"featImg":"science_1981242","label":"source_science_1981241"},"science_1931908":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1931908","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1931908","score":null,"sort":[1538089797000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"californias-largest-new-reservoir-likely-to-face-water-access-limits","title":"California’s Largest New Reservoir Likely to Face Water-Access Limits","publishDate":1538089797,"format":"standard","headTitle":"California’s Largest New Reservoir Likely to Face Water-Access Limits | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Sites Reservoir, the largest new water storage proposal in California, recently won a commitment of $816 million in state funds to help with construction. It promises to deliver enough water every year, on average, to serve 1 million homes. But regulatory realities looming in the background may mean the project has substantially less water at its disposal.[contextly_sidebar id=”AyOpbL4gYkqrepIS2f6f0KZX0LE1uVWd”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project would inundate an oak-studded valley 8 miles west of Maxwell, a town on Interstate-5 about a 90-minute drive north of Sacramento. For a total construction cost of $5.1 billion, the shallow \u003ca href=\"https://www.sitesproject.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sites Reservoir\u003c/a> could store 1.8 million acre-feet of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the project’s appeal lies in the fact that it is an “off-stream” reservoir, meaning it would not store water by damming a major river. Instead, it would be filled by water pumped from the Sacramento River, 14 miles away, during times of surplus flow. On average, project proponents estimate, about 500,000 acre-feet of water would be available annually for delivery to farms, cities and wildlife refuge areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an off-stream reservoir, Sites would not be subject to typical winter flood-control requirements, which require most reservoirs to release vast quantities of water during winter – even during droughts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also is designed to work in concert with other major reservoirs in Northern California to benefit wildlife. For instance, Sites could deliver summer irrigation water to farmers instead of the much larger and deeper Shasta Reservoir, allowing the latter to preserve its cold water pool for the fall salmon run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just a different animal. It works differently,” said Rob Thomson, environmental planning manager for Sites. “It’s a way of starting to head toward sustainable surface water management.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, the California Water Commission \u003ca href=\"https://cwc.ca.gov/Documents/Press/MCEDPressRelease_072418.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">committed to fund\u003c/a> $816 million of the total construction cost for Sites using money generated by Proposition 1, a water bond approved by the state’s voters in 2014. Sites received by far the largest award out of the eight projects approved for funding.[contextly_sidebar id=”7vKMaHFxG9Qa2UJAyfUqLPNiNzu7a5Jl”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $4 billion balance of construction costs would be funded by more than two \u003ca href=\"https://www.sitesproject.org/participants/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dozen water agencies\u003c/a> that have shown interest in the project, ranging from the nearby Maxwell Irrigation District to the giant Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission also agreed to hand over $41 million in “early funding” to help Sites pay for environment studies and permits prior to construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But two routine regulatory actions converging on the project mean Sites could be forced to cut its 500,000 acre-foot annual delivery estimate. This, in turn, could make its water more expensive for the agencies that choose to invest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first is an update of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/water_issues/programs/bay_delta/comp_review.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay-Delta Water Quality Control Plan.\u003c/a> Led by the State Water Resources Control Board, it would require thousands of water-rights holders to reduce their diversions from the Sacramento River and its tributaries in order to improve flows for aquatic habitat and water quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sacramento River – the largest river in California – is already considered oversubscribed, meaning more water rights have been issued than there is actual water to extract. The result was illustrated during California’s recent five-year drought, in which thousands of water rights had to be curtailed to ensure enough flow for the most senior water-rights holders and for salmon, steelhead, sturgeon and other imperiled fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay-Delta Plan Update would make some degree of curtailments permanent to protect the long-term health of the watershed and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the largest estuary on the West Coast of the Americas.[contextly_sidebar id=”JTGjZdMIAz5OxIA5p0zsQiHppjHxlGzS”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The water board has yet to release a draft document explaining what those curtailments will look like. Under the Clean Water Act, the plan must be updated every three years. As of now, it has been 12 years since the last update.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a similar process began in 2017 for the San Joaquin River, and three tributaries could require steep cutbacks for many diverters in that watershed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sites project does not yet have water rights on the Sacramento River to fill the proposed reservoir. This environment of permanent cutbacks for existing diverters is likely to make obtaining new water rights even more difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the water board adopts new standards for Delta outflow and Sacramento River inflows to the Delta, that would limit the periods of time when Sites could be diverting,” said Doug Obegi, an attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council who is monitoring the process. “It would significantly reduce the yield of the project.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomson said it’s too early to tell how the water board’s process will affect Sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He emphasized the whole purpose of the Sites project is to capture water when a surplus is available, such as during storm runoff. As a result, it may not be affected by the same rules that govern water rights for farms and cities, which divert water on a more continual basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s pretty darn speculative,” he said. “Of course, it will change our diversion criteria when they implement the plan. But this is a complex project and we’re adding into an already complex water system. So it’s not easy to give yes and no answers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second potential limit arises from concerns expressed by the state’s Department of Fish and Wildlife. In \u003ca class=\"preview-link\" href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JPgZO7jfucpGE-XAtqa5mgAz-REy4JCO/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">formal comments\u003c/a> submitted in January on the Sites draft environmental impact report, department officials said the reservoir may not be able to divert water from the Sacramento River as often as its proponents think. The issue has to do with “bypass flows.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposed operation of Sites calls for diverting water into the reservoir whenever flows in the Sacramento River are between 3,250 and 5,000 cubic ft per second, depending on where the water is diverted. This is known as the bypass flow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Fish and Wildlife, however, says the bypass flow in the river must be at least 13,000 cfs before Sites can divert. The reason is that imperiled salmon in the river need at least that much flow to survive. This much additional bypass flow means Sites may have less opportunity to fill the reservoir and, potentially, less water in total available to sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That will obviously change the economics pretty dramatically, and will change who’s interested in the project,” said Obegi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomson said the smaller bypass flow numbers were used for the environmental impact report in order to analyze the worst possible effects on fish and habitat. He also said that if the project must adhere to a higher bypass flow requirement, it won’t necessarily limit total diversions into the reservoir.[contextly_sidebar id=”LbC6DjLENX0bn17h8N9FAK37z05WYIIX”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason, he said, is climate change: It is possible the bypass flow number will be exceeded more often as precipitation in the watershed falls as rain rather than snow. This could make the Sacramento River “flashier,” and the Sites project could capture those flow peaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If our permits increase those bypass amounts, then we would have to adapt our operations,” Thomson said. “But you can’t equate that to total volume, because you have to know how many days or hours or weeks you can divert for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another option for the project is to build a smaller reservoir. Sites officials have previously said \u003ca class=\"preview-link\" href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/article215421995.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">they would consider reducing its size\u003c/a>, based on the amount of investment from participating water agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"fin\">Receiving the $816 million in state funds for construction is conditioned upon obtaining water rights and environmental permits, among other things. Thomson said he anticipates the Sites project will have all those requirements ready for the state Water Commission by the end of 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This article originally appeared on \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.newsdeeply.com/water/articles/2018/09/26/californias-largest-new-reservoir-likely-to-face-water-access-limits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Water Deeply\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and you can find it \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://mail.kqed.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=9e4bb0e1a7d74f24ba4684ef2533053d&URL=https%3a%2f%2fwww.newsdeeply.com%2fwater%2farticles%2f2016%2f07%2f07%2fnine-experts-to-watch-on-california-water-policy\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">here\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. For important news about the California drought, you can \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"http://waterdeeply.us5.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=8b78e9a34ff7443ec1e8c62c6&id=2947becb78\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">sign up\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to the Water Deeply email list.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The $5 billion Sites Reservoir project recently won the largest award in a state funding competition. But separate state regulatory actions could limit how much water it can tap from the Sacramento River.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704927453,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":1374},"headData":{"title":"California’s Largest New Reservoir Likely to Face Water-Access Limits | KQED","description":"The $5 billion Sites Reservoir project recently won the largest award in a state funding competition. But separate state regulatory actions could limit how much water it can tap from the Sacramento River.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"California’s Largest New Reservoir Likely to Face Water-Access Limits","datePublished":"2018-09-27T23:09:57.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-10T22:57:33.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"source":"Water","sticky":false,"nprByline":"Matt Weiser\u003cbr />Water Deeply","path":"/science/1931908/californias-largest-new-reservoir-likely-to-face-water-access-limits","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Sites Reservoir, the largest new water storage proposal in California, recently won a commitment of $816 million in state funds to help with construction. It promises to deliver enough water every year, on average, to serve 1 million homes. But regulatory realities looming in the background may mean the project has substantially less water at its disposal.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project would inundate an oak-studded valley 8 miles west of Maxwell, a town on Interstate-5 about a 90-minute drive north of Sacramento. For a total construction cost of $5.1 billion, the shallow \u003ca href=\"https://www.sitesproject.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sites Reservoir\u003c/a> could store 1.8 million acre-feet of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the project’s appeal lies in the fact that it is an “off-stream” reservoir, meaning it would not store water by damming a major river. Instead, it would be filled by water pumped from the Sacramento River, 14 miles away, during times of surplus flow. On average, project proponents estimate, about 500,000 acre-feet of water would be available annually for delivery to farms, cities and wildlife refuge areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an off-stream reservoir, Sites would not be subject to typical winter flood-control requirements, which require most reservoirs to release vast quantities of water during winter – even during droughts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also is designed to work in concert with other major reservoirs in Northern California to benefit wildlife. For instance, Sites could deliver summer irrigation water to farmers instead of the much larger and deeper Shasta Reservoir, allowing the latter to preserve its cold water pool for the fall salmon run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just a different animal. It works differently,” said Rob Thomson, environmental planning manager for Sites. “It’s a way of starting to head toward sustainable surface water management.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, the California Water Commission \u003ca href=\"https://cwc.ca.gov/Documents/Press/MCEDPressRelease_072418.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">committed to fund\u003c/a> $816 million of the total construction cost for Sites using money generated by Proposition 1, a water bond approved by the state’s voters in 2014. Sites received by far the largest award out of the eight projects approved for funding.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $4 billion balance of construction costs would be funded by more than two \u003ca href=\"https://www.sitesproject.org/participants/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dozen water agencies\u003c/a> that have shown interest in the project, ranging from the nearby Maxwell Irrigation District to the giant Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission also agreed to hand over $41 million in “early funding” to help Sites pay for environment studies and permits prior to construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But two routine regulatory actions converging on the project mean Sites could be forced to cut its 500,000 acre-foot annual delivery estimate. This, in turn, could make its water more expensive for the agencies that choose to invest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first is an update of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/water_issues/programs/bay_delta/comp_review.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay-Delta Water Quality Control Plan.\u003c/a> Led by the State Water Resources Control Board, it would require thousands of water-rights holders to reduce their diversions from the Sacramento River and its tributaries in order to improve flows for aquatic habitat and water quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sacramento River – the largest river in California – is already considered oversubscribed, meaning more water rights have been issued than there is actual water to extract. The result was illustrated during California’s recent five-year drought, in which thousands of water rights had to be curtailed to ensure enough flow for the most senior water-rights holders and for salmon, steelhead, sturgeon and other imperiled fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay-Delta Plan Update would make some degree of curtailments permanent to protect the long-term health of the watershed and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the largest estuary on the West Coast of the Americas.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The water board has yet to release a draft document explaining what those curtailments will look like. Under the Clean Water Act, the plan must be updated every three years. As of now, it has been 12 years since the last update.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a similar process began in 2017 for the San Joaquin River, and three tributaries could require steep cutbacks for many diverters in that watershed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sites project does not yet have water rights on the Sacramento River to fill the proposed reservoir. This environment of permanent cutbacks for existing diverters is likely to make obtaining new water rights even more difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the water board adopts new standards for Delta outflow and Sacramento River inflows to the Delta, that would limit the periods of time when Sites could be diverting,” said Doug Obegi, an attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council who is monitoring the process. “It would significantly reduce the yield of the project.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomson said it’s too early to tell how the water board’s process will affect Sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He emphasized the whole purpose of the Sites project is to capture water when a surplus is available, such as during storm runoff. As a result, it may not be affected by the same rules that govern water rights for farms and cities, which divert water on a more continual basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s pretty darn speculative,” he said. “Of course, it will change our diversion criteria when they implement the plan. But this is a complex project and we’re adding into an already complex water system. So it’s not easy to give yes and no answers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second potential limit arises from concerns expressed by the state’s Department of Fish and Wildlife. In \u003ca class=\"preview-link\" href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JPgZO7jfucpGE-XAtqa5mgAz-REy4JCO/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">formal comments\u003c/a> submitted in January on the Sites draft environmental impact report, department officials said the reservoir may not be able to divert water from the Sacramento River as often as its proponents think. The issue has to do with “bypass flows.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposed operation of Sites calls for diverting water into the reservoir whenever flows in the Sacramento River are between 3,250 and 5,000 cubic ft per second, depending on where the water is diverted. This is known as the bypass flow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Fish and Wildlife, however, says the bypass flow in the river must be at least 13,000 cfs before Sites can divert. The reason is that imperiled salmon in the river need at least that much flow to survive. This much additional bypass flow means Sites may have less opportunity to fill the reservoir and, potentially, less water in total available to sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That will obviously change the economics pretty dramatically, and will change who’s interested in the project,” said Obegi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomson said the smaller bypass flow numbers were used for the environmental impact report in order to analyze the worst possible effects on fish and habitat. He also said that if the project must adhere to a higher bypass flow requirement, it won’t necessarily limit total diversions into the reservoir.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason, he said, is climate change: It is possible the bypass flow number will be exceeded more often as precipitation in the watershed falls as rain rather than snow. This could make the Sacramento River “flashier,” and the Sites project could capture those flow peaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If our permits increase those bypass amounts, then we would have to adapt our operations,” Thomson said. “But you can’t equate that to total volume, because you have to know how many days or hours or weeks you can divert for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another option for the project is to build a smaller reservoir. Sites officials have previously said \u003ca class=\"preview-link\" href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/article215421995.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">they would consider reducing its size\u003c/a>, based on the amount of investment from participating water agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"fin\">Receiving the $816 million in state funds for construction is conditioned upon obtaining water rights and environmental permits, among other things. Thomson said he anticipates the Sites project will have all those requirements ready for the state Water Commission by the end of 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This article originally appeared on \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.newsdeeply.com/water/articles/2018/09/26/californias-largest-new-reservoir-likely-to-face-water-access-limits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Water Deeply\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and you can find it \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://mail.kqed.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=9e4bb0e1a7d74f24ba4684ef2533053d&URL=https%3a%2f%2fwww.newsdeeply.com%2fwater%2farticles%2f2016%2f07%2f07%2fnine-experts-to-watch-on-california-water-policy\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">here\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. For important news about the California drought, you can \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"http://waterdeeply.us5.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=8b78e9a34ff7443ec1e8c62c6&id=2947becb78\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">sign up\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to the Water Deeply email list.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1931908/californias-largest-new-reservoir-likely-to-face-water-access-limits","authors":["byline_science_1931908"],"categories":["science_89","science_35","science_98"],"tags":["science_539","science_201"],"featImg":"science_1931915","label":"source_science_1931908"},"science_595716":{"type":"posts","id":"science_595716","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"595716","score":null,"sort":[1459148507000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"was-march-the-rainfall-miracle-wed-hoped-for","title":"Was March the Rainfall Miracle We'd Hoped For?","publishDate":1459148507,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Was March the Rainfall Miracle We’d Hoped For? | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":1151,"site":"science"},"content":"\u003cp>Yes, the Bay Area got a lot of rain this winter. But was it enough to end the drought?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sadly, no. But there’s good news—this winter was the best we’ve had in five years in terms of precipitation. Rainfall in most Bay Area cities is about 100 percent of normal. San Francisco has received \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/cnrfc/rsa_getprod.php?prod=RNORR4RSA&wfo=cnrfc&version=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">21 inches of rain this winter\u003c/a>, up from \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/cnrfc/rsa_getprod.php?prod=RNORR4RSA&wfo=cnrfc&version=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">16 inches last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘We’re not in an emergency in northern California anymore in terms of drought.’\u003ccite>Paul Rogers,\u003cbr>KQED and the San Jose Mercury News\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>And the state’s two biggest reservoirs, \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oroville and Shasta, are now more than \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cdecapp/resapp/getResGraphsMain.action\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">80 percent full\u003c/a>. Last March, they hovered between \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/50-percent-of-average_reservoirs.jpg\">50 and 59 percent\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really been kind of a wonderful last few months,” says \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/PaulRogersSJMN?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul Rogers\u003c/a>, San Jose Mercury News Environment Reporter and KQED Science Managing Editor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Niño’s warm ocean waters fueled storms across the state, and northern California got most of the benefit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We’re not in an emergency in northern California anymore in terms of drought,” Rogers says. “The soaking storms that we got in March really delivered their biggest punch in the most important watersheds in the state.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to Oroville and Shasta, \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pardee reservoir, the biggest reservoir that serves the East Bay, is \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebmud.com/water-and-drought/about-your-water/water-supply/water-supply-reports/daily-water-supply-report/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">99 percent full\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_596537\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1006px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-596537\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/CA-map_drought.jpg\" alt=\"This map shows precipitation as a percentage of average for March. Areas in maroon are at less than 5 percent of average for this time of year while magenta areas are at more than 300 percent of average. \" width=\"1006\" height=\"1392\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/CA-map_drought.jpg 1006w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/CA-map_drought-400x553.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/CA-map_drought-800x1107.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/CA-map_drought-768x1063.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/CA-map_drought-960x1328.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1006px) 100vw, 1006px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This map shows precipitation as a percentage of average for March. Areas in maroon are at less than 5 percent of average for this time of year while magenta areas are at more than 300 percent of average. \u003ccite>(NOAA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Rogers says southern California wasn’t as lucky. Some cities, \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">like Los Angeles, are only at \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/cnrfc/rsa_getprod.php?prod=RNORR4RSA&wfo=cnrfc&version=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">50 percent of normal rainfall\u003c/a> for this time of year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And farther south, say in Long Beach and Riverside, rainfall totals are at \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/cnrfc/rsa_getprod.php?prod=RNORR4RSA&wfo=cnrfc&version=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">44 percent of average\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really is a tale of two droughts,” Rogers says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mandatory water cutbacks Governor Jerry Brown enacted last April have been extended \u003ca href=\"http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/conservation_portal/emergency_regulation.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">through October\u003c/a>, but some of those restrictions may be lifted in parts of northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Felicia Marcus, who chairs the \u003ca href=\"http://www.swrcb.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State Water Resources Control Board\u003c/a>, has already \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/article66078267.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hinted at this\u003c/a>, Rogers noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“What you’re going to probably see,” he says, “is that, in northern California, particularly the further north you go, where we had a lot of rain, they’re going to have few or no mandatory rules. The further south you go, their rules are going to look pretty similar to what they had this past summer.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although relaxed restriction are a positive sign—\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/01/11/when-will-californias-drought-end/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the drought isn’t legally over\u003c/a> until Brown says so and lifts his executive order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That probably won’t happen this year.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Northern California's winter rains weren't enough to end the drought, but it's the most precipitation we’ve had in five years.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704930432,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":490},"headData":{"title":"Was March the Rainfall Miracle We'd Hoped For? | KQED","description":"Northern California's winter rains weren't enough to end the drought, but it's the most precipitation we’ve had in five years.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Was March the Rainfall Miracle We'd Hoped For?","datePublished":"2016-03-28T07:01:47.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-10T23:47:12.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"audioUrl":"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2016/03/WEBMarchMiracleRogers2way160328.mp3","sticky":false,"path":"/science/595716/was-march-the-rainfall-miracle-wed-hoped-for","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Yes, the Bay Area got a lot of rain this winter. But was it enough to end the drought?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sadly, no. But there’s good news—this winter was the best we’ve had in five years in terms of precipitation. Rainfall in most Bay Area cities is about 100 percent of normal. San Francisco has received \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/cnrfc/rsa_getprod.php?prod=RNORR4RSA&wfo=cnrfc&version=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">21 inches of rain this winter\u003c/a>, up from \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/cnrfc/rsa_getprod.php?prod=RNORR4RSA&wfo=cnrfc&version=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">16 inches last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘We’re not in an emergency in northern California anymore in terms of drought.’\u003ccite>Paul Rogers,\u003cbr>KQED and the San Jose Mercury News\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>And the state’s two biggest reservoirs, \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oroville and Shasta, are now more than \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cdecapp/resapp/getResGraphsMain.action\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">80 percent full\u003c/a>. Last March, they hovered between \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/50-percent-of-average_reservoirs.jpg\">50 and 59 percent\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really been kind of a wonderful last few months,” says \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/PaulRogersSJMN?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul Rogers\u003c/a>, San Jose Mercury News Environment Reporter and KQED Science Managing Editor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Niño’s warm ocean waters fueled storms across the state, and northern California got most of the benefit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We’re not in an emergency in northern California anymore in terms of drought,” Rogers says. “The soaking storms that we got in March really delivered their biggest punch in the most important watersheds in the state.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to Oroville and Shasta, \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pardee reservoir, the biggest reservoir that serves the East Bay, is \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebmud.com/water-and-drought/about-your-water/water-supply/water-supply-reports/daily-water-supply-report/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">99 percent full\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_596537\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1006px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-596537\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/CA-map_drought.jpg\" alt=\"This map shows precipitation as a percentage of average for March. Areas in maroon are at less than 5 percent of average for this time of year while magenta areas are at more than 300 percent of average. \" width=\"1006\" height=\"1392\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/CA-map_drought.jpg 1006w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/CA-map_drought-400x553.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/CA-map_drought-800x1107.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/CA-map_drought-768x1063.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/CA-map_drought-960x1328.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1006px) 100vw, 1006px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This map shows precipitation as a percentage of average for March. Areas in maroon are at less than 5 percent of average for this time of year while magenta areas are at more than 300 percent of average. \u003ccite>(NOAA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Rogers says southern California wasn’t as lucky. Some cities, \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">like Los Angeles, are only at \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/cnrfc/rsa_getprod.php?prod=RNORR4RSA&wfo=cnrfc&version=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">50 percent of normal rainfall\u003c/a> for this time of year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And farther south, say in Long Beach and Riverside, rainfall totals are at \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/cnrfc/rsa_getprod.php?prod=RNORR4RSA&wfo=cnrfc&version=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">44 percent of average\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really is a tale of two droughts,” Rogers says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mandatory water cutbacks Governor Jerry Brown enacted last April have been extended \u003ca href=\"http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/conservation_portal/emergency_regulation.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">through October\u003c/a>, but some of those restrictions may be lifted in parts of northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Felicia Marcus, who chairs the \u003ca href=\"http://www.swrcb.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State Water Resources Control Board\u003c/a>, has already \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/article66078267.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hinted at this\u003c/a>, Rogers noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“What you’re going to probably see,” he says, “is that, in northern California, particularly the further north you go, where we had a lot of rain, they’re going to have few or no mandatory rules. The further south you go, their rules are going to look pretty similar to what they had this past summer.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although relaxed restriction are a positive sign—\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/01/11/when-will-californias-drought-end/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the drought isn’t legally over\u003c/a> until Brown says so and lifts his executive order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That probably won’t happen this year.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/595716/was-march-the-rainfall-miracle-wed-hoped-for","authors":["5432"],"series":["science_1151"],"categories":["science_46","science_31","science_35","science_40","science_43","science_98"],"tags":["science_572","science_1004","science_1213","science_539"],"featImg":"science_596167","label":"science_1151"},"science_13653":{"type":"posts","id":"science_13653","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"13653","score":null,"sort":[1391043589000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-drought-17-communities-on-the-critical-list","title":"California Drought: 17 Communities on the Critical List","publishDate":1391043589,"format":"aside","headTitle":"California Drought: 17 Communities on the Critical List | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":1151,"site":"science"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13665\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/01/reservoir-featured.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13665 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/01/reservoir-featured.jpg\" alt=\"Almaden Reservoir in San Jose is owned by the Santa Clara Valley Water District, a large water supplier, and not one of the ones currently in trouble. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Almaden Reservoir in San Jose is owned by the Santa Clara Valley Water District, a large water supplier, and not one of the ones currently in trouble. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The scant amounts of rain and snow that finally infiltrated Northern California this week will put barely a dent in the ongoing drought. Now, 17 communities in California are at risk of running out of water within one to four months, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/Pages/NR14-012.aspx\">California Department of Public Health\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED Science managing editor and San Jose Mercury News reporter Paul Rogers \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_25013388/california-drought-17-communities-could-run-out-water\">described the problem in the Merc\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In some communities, wells are running dry. In others, reservoirs are nearly empty. Some have long-running problems that predate the drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The water systems, all in rural areas, serve from 39 to 11,000 residents. They range from the tiny Lompico County Water District in Santa Cruz County to districts that serve the cities of Healdsburg and Cloverdale in Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘I expect if the drought continues, we will see more small areas getting in trouble and needing help.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“These little districts with the small number of ratepayers don’t have a safety net,” \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201401311630/a\">Rogers told The California Report’s Scott Shafer\u003c/a>. “Many of them were vulnerable to begin with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike big urban water agencies such as the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, Santa Clara Valley Water District and East Bay Municipal Utility District, smaller water districts don’t have the resources to build new reservoirs and manage water conservation programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so while some of the large districts with water banked in big reservoirs are asking for \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/28/san-francisco-seeks-10-percent-voluntary-cut-in-water-consumption\">voluntary cutbacks\u003c/a> — 10 percent in San Francisco and the Peninsula, for instance, and 20 percent in Alameda County — Rogers said these 17 small districts will be looking at more drastic solutions: new pipelines, trucking in water, drilling new wells or bringing in mobile desalination plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the drought drags on, they may not be the only ones. “I expect if the drought continues, we will see more small areas getting in trouble and needing help,” Rogers said. “When we talk about who’s going to suffer the most, it’s small, rural communities without money and it’s farmers and ranchers who need the water the most for their economics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While we may get, oh, another tenth of an inch or so of rain in today’s weather system, the National Weather Service is \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=NWS&issuedby=MTR&product=AFD&format=CI&version=1&glossary=1\">forecasting more dry weather\u003c/a> on the horizon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/01/20140128_091728_ssjm0129nowater90.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13671 aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/01/20140128_091728_ssjm0129nowater90.jpg\" alt=\"NEW GRAPHICS TEMPLATE\" width=\"586\" height=\"476\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"It finally rained and snowed in parts of Northern California, but we are still deep in a drought. 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(Scott Detrow/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6659\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Low water levels at Folsom Lake are exposing more steps to get down to the dock than usual for this time of year. (Scott Detrow/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The people who dock their boats at Folsom Lake, about 25 miles east of Sacramento, keep track of how dry the reservoir is by how many steps it takes to get from the parking lot to the floating dock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the spring, when melting snow and rainfall fill the lake’s basin, less than ten steps peek out from above the water. Last week, the number was 80. Jeff Gomez said he made sure to count as he trekked up and down the stairs eight different times. “I came down to refuel the boat,” Gomez said as he caught his breath after dragging a cooler down the 80 steps. “That took two trips. Now this was two trips.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez and his family were getting ready for one of their final boat rides of the year. Folsom Lake is at half its capacity, and low water levels will force Gomez and everyone else who docks their boats in the lake to remove their crafts from the water by Sunday, August 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not unusual for Folsom Lake to lose water over the course of the summer, but the boat-removal order typically comes in the fall, not early August. “It’s not shocking, because we expected it. Lack of snow, lack of rain” said Gomez as he prepped his speedboat for an afternoon of tubing. “It’s kind of sad, though.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“It Just Fell Off The Map”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Folsom Lake’s early boat-removal order is the latest evidence of California’s current dry stretch. The state’s “water year” begins in October. It got off to a “robust start,” in terms of rainfall, according to federal Bureau of Reclamation spokesman Pete Lucero. (Reclamation oversees the \u003ca href=\"http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Project.jsp?proj_Name=Central+Valley+Project\">Central Valley Project\u003c/a>, which manages water throughout central California.) “And then it just fell off the map,” he said. The January-May stretch “was the lowest recorded precipitation year in a five-month period ever,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s left Folsom Lake at 81 percent of its typical August average. \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cdecapp/resapp/getResGraphsMain.action\">Other reservoirs are hurting\u003c/a>, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In Shasta [Lake] we’re at about 78 percent of its average. The state’s Oroville Reservoir is about 89 percent of average. The New Melones Reservoir is at 72 percent. And our off-storage reservoir, the San Luis Res down near Los Banos, is at 39 percent of the 15-year average.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Millerton Lake near Fresno is the only Central Valley reservoir above average August levels. “Water right now, as it always is in California, is a really finite resource,” said Lucero.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"It’s not unusual for Folsom Lake to lose water over the course of the summer, but the boat-removal order typically comes in the fall, not early August.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704935346,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":11,"wordCount":485},"headData":{"title":"Low Water Levels Forcing Boats Out Of Folsom Lake | KQED","description":"It’s not unusual for Folsom Lake to lose water over the course of the summer, but the boat-removal order typically comes in the fall, not early August.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Low Water Levels Forcing Boats Out Of Folsom Lake","datePublished":"2013-08-05T18:34:38.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-11T01:09:06.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"path":"/science/6657/low-water-levels-forcing-boats-out-of-folsom-lake","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_6659\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2013/08/folsomlake-e1375727640566.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2013/08/folsomlake-e1375727640566.jpg\" alt=\"Low water levels at Folsom Lake are exposing more steps to get down to the dock than usual for this time of year. 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Now this was two trips.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez and his family were getting ready for one of their final boat rides of the year. Folsom Lake is at half its capacity, and low water levels will force Gomez and everyone else who docks their boats in the lake to remove their crafts from the water by Sunday, August 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not unusual for Folsom Lake to lose water over the course of the summer, but the boat-removal order typically comes in the fall, not early August. “It’s not shocking, because we expected it. Lack of snow, lack of rain” said Gomez as he prepped his speedboat for an afternoon of tubing. “It’s kind of sad, though.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“It Just Fell Off The Map”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Folsom Lake’s early boat-removal order is the latest evidence of California’s current dry stretch. The state’s “water year” begins in October. It got off to a “robust start,” in terms of rainfall, according to federal Bureau of Reclamation spokesman Pete Lucero. (Reclamation oversees the \u003ca href=\"http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Project.jsp?proj_Name=Central+Valley+Project\">Central Valley Project\u003c/a>, which manages water throughout central California.) “And then it just fell off the map,” he said. 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