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March 28, 2024 |
Sierra snowpack comes up short, 4th year of drought feared SOUTHLAND – (INT) – Although a few showers fell this week, the State Department of Water Resources isn’t impressed.
The drought is going to continue into 2015. Spokesman Doug Carlson says Thursday’s depleted Sierrra snowpack survey could push California into a fourth year of drought. "The snowpack is only 25 percent of water content we like to see at the end of January. The reservoirs are all below average at about 60 percent and the groundwater is depleted.” Only two previous years, 1991 and 1963, was the snowpack this sparse for this time of winter. Story Date: February 1, 2015
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