Tuesday, May 1, 2012

California - Final Sierra snowpack survey - 40% of normal

Not enough rain this year, but we're still okay.

San Francisco Chronicle/Associated Press, 5/1/12. "Water supplies adequate despite thin snowpack."

"The state Department of Water Resources conducted its fifth and final manual snow survey of the season Tuesday. Water content in the Sierra snowpack was measured at 40 percent of normal. It was 190 percent of normal this time last year.

The department expects to deliver 60 percent of the water requested by users of the State Water Project, which supplies 25 million Californians and more than 1 million acres of agricultural land."   Read Article.

Prior article San Francisco Chronicle 1/4/12.
Posted by Kathy Meeh

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