Folsom Lake water levels above-average — for now
Folsom Lake is 85% full, and it is once again a welcoming place for boaters and swimmers. It’s a dramatic turnaround from last July when boat docks were unusable….“We’re more than double the storage that we had this day last year,” Drew Lessard said. Lessard is an area manager for the Bureau of Reclamation, the agency that operates Folsom Dam…. Lessard explains the impressive lake level is largely the result of gradual snowmelt from the cold April storms. Those storms were well-positioned to benefit the American River watershed that flows into the lake.