Opinion: New Melones modeling & mega-droughts: Setting stage for state’s water Armageddon
New Melones Reservoir is the proverbial canary in the mine when it comes to where state water policy wedded with the return of mega-droughts is taking California. Using historical hydrology data on the Stanislaus River basin between 1922 and 2019: • Based on current regulatory rules New Melones Reservoir would fall below 250,000 acre-feet of storage in three out of the 98 years.
-Written by columnist Dennis Wyatt.