Blog posts and stories from Rock-N-Water about current snowpack levels.
February Water-Year Forecast Each month in the spring, the Department of Water Resources releases a prediction(They call it a "Forecast") of what the water situation will be for the rest of the water year. The February report is out[3. The raw data is here, but that gets updated with the most recent survey every month. The [...]
Last Friday, Jan 17 2014, California Governor Jerry Brown declared a drought emergency for the state of California. News outlets and the like were quick to respond with headlines like, Hundred Years of Dry ((Time – Science & Space)), California’s drought emergency ((Los Angles Times – Opinion)), The Drought is Back in California ((Rush Limbaugh)), Historic [...]
Below Normal water but still looking good We've got less water in California than we would like, but we're still only in the Below Normal range for summer water releases. This means that for April through the 1st week in May (after which we'll go off the May water report), we'll have guaranteed water for whitewater rafting on [...]
On May 11th, the Department of Water Resources released it's Bulletin 120 report on the water fall and storage levels in California for 2012. While our snow pack and rain fall has been abysmal in 2012, the reservoir carryover from the 2011 water year was enough to lift us up into a "Dry" water year classification (at least [...]
