California’s major reservoirs remain nearly full heading into summer
This will be the first time in several years that California will enter summer with the majority of its reservoirs at or over 90 percent of total capacity, according to data from the California Department of Water Resources. As of Saturday, Shasta, Oroville, Folsom, New Bullards Bar, San Luis, Castaic and Cachuma reservoirs are over 90 percent of their total capacity and in the case of Shasta and Oroville are less than 5 percent away from being full. Each of these reservoirs is all well over their historic averages for this time point-in-time of the year. Lake Oroville, which is the second largest reservoir in the state, has a current depth of 895 feet and is storing about 3.47 million acre-feet of water.
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