March 10, 2023

State officials say the urgency to store more water has vanished as storms swell reservoirs. The reversal is a victory for environmentalists, but they say the damage to salmon and native fish is already done.

EN RESUMEN A medida que las tormentas derriten la capa de nieve, los administradores del sistema liberaron agua para evitar que los embalses se desborden e inunden las ciudades del Valle Central, y eso envía agua al océano. Las lluvias cálidas están derritiendo la nieve que idealmente duraría hasta la primavera y ayudaría con las […]

As storms melt snowpack, managers released water to prevent reservoirs from overflowing and flooding Central Valley towns — and that sends water into the ocean. The warm rains melt snow that ideally would last into spring and help with water deliveries.

If you’re reading this somewhere in California and within sight of a window, this probably won’t come as news: It’s raining. A lot. Again. With the 10th atmospheric river of the winter now drenching an already sodden state and threatening to melt a historic snowpack across the Sierra, California water regulators have opened the floodgates […]