March 29, 2024
Deliveries of state project water rising
SACRAMENTO – (INT) – Farmers and the twenty-nine agencies that draw from the State Water Project will be getting 60 percent of their requested allotments in the coming months. That’s the best in 4-years.

It’s been ten years since the allotments were 100 percent of the demands.

Initial allotments this year were predicted to be only 10 percent. But, generous El Nino rains during the winter have been filling Northern California reservoirs. Still, state water officials say the historic drought is far from over.

It could take decades to replenish groundwater levels.

Under federal rules, Shasta, Oroville and Folsom reservoirs have had to make flood control releases to retain storage space for heavy inflow.
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