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RitaPoole56 t1_j4nbnm1 wrote

Please pardon my ignorance of CA geography but wasn’t it Lake Mead that was so low they were finding old corpses in it? Has that water level risen significantly or is it in an area that hasn’t seen the newsworthy impact? TIA

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ale_goldie OP t1_j4oipmb wrote

Yes lake Mead and Powell have been the big names in the news in terms of low resevoir storage. The purpose of the analysis I was doing was just to look at California reservoirs and how atmospheric rivers have been affecting them.

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anonkitty2 t1_j4zcus3 wrote

Lake Mead is in Nevada, on the Colorado River. California simply imports water from there. It won't be getting as much aid from the atmospheric river because the Colorado River is on the far side of the Sierra mountains. California has a lot of its own reservoirs -- apparently, there are even rubber dams making reservoirs now; the smaller ones have really benefited

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