Look how low Folsom Lake is! (pics)

GRADS · 11-26-2013, 12:41 PM

Originally Posted by ptc

There you go over reacting again.... Folsom is fed by one of the largest water sources in the world.... the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range, which each fork of the American River is made up of The Tahoe National Forest and the Eldorado National Forest. Auburn (now removed) and Folsom Dams were installed for FLOOD CONTROL only because SO MUCH water came out of those mountains in the spring time thaws that Sacramento all the way down to Stockton as we know it was underwater for months at a time before the dams and levy systems were installed to control it. Yes it is at an all time low right now but water from the Sierra's is abundant. Shipping it all down to the desert southern CAL region via aquaducts certainly doesnt help either....

PS Mismanagement of our water resources by the CAL WATER RESOURCES BOARD is the real problem.... people are not engineers they are idiots!

It will be back.... and we will be back in Pasty Cove in no time!!!! with our BOATS!!!! lol....

Unless we get a monster rainfall this winter we will be done in Pastie Cove By mid June.

**Tishimself** · 11-26-2013, 12:59 PM

Originally Posted by GRADS

Unless we get a monster rainfall this winter we will be done in Pastie Cove By mid June.

PTC...it's not just Folsom, it's EVERY lake in the lower Sierra foothills from Folsom all the way down to Fresno. Every lake is low, Don Pedro is so low trees that are original to the area that were submerged and have been since the lakes inception are exposed. This is not a matter of abundant sierra watersheds any longer. No matter how much snow or rain falls it is not enough to satiate the glut of almond orchards being planted down the valley as far as the eye can see. There will be no good boating for the foreseeable future, and I may start going to the river again to find adequate boating. Blame it on Cal water all you want, I blame it on the real culprit, the orchards and farmaers planting thousands of acres of orchards, some of which are flood irrigated.