One of California’s largest reservoirs has already reached its peak level for the year, barely surpassing half of its capacity.
The federal government is telling seven states to make plans for drastically cutting water use along the Colorado River within two months.State water officials said the lake was at 51% of capacity and 66% of its historical average for this point in the year.forced the hydroelectric power plant that relies on Lake Oroville’s water supply to shut down.
This year’s peak water level was about 400,000 acre-feet above 2021’s highest point, Department of Water Resources data show. Until 2021, water levels for the lake north of Sacramento had peaked at 2.5 million acre-feet or more each year since 2015 — about 600,000 acre-feet above this year’s high.
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