California’s water infrastructure to be tested this spring as massive winter snowpack melts away
A patrol vehicle navigates a stretch of Interstate 80 in the Donner Pass area of the Sierra Nevada, west of Truckee, Calif., on Feb. 27. By Mike Branom March 28 at 11:30 AM As waterlogged storms repeatedly pounded California this winter, social media was filled with variations on a distinct photo theme. The subject was a freshly plowed road wedged between towering white walls of snow measuring 10 or 20 feet tall.
Still, impact is assured from so much water trickling down mountainsides into streams and creeks, eventually joining a river before being captured in a reservoir or flowing all the way to the Pacific Ocean. And that doesn’t take into account the possibility of more storms, such as the one that lashed the Sierra Nevada foothills on Wednesday, dropping up to 30 inches of snow in the higher elevations while prompting the Weather Service to issue warnings for a tornado and flash flooding.
According to the Sacramento Bee, “residents downstream of the spillway are watching the spillway nervously. They’ve been skeptical about insistence that small amounts of water flowing down the spillway in recent weeks wasn’t from cracks or other problems. DWR says it’s normal seepage from the spillway gates.”
In November, the voters of Los Angeles County approved a property tax projected to raise hundreds of millions of dollars annually to capture and clean up storm water.
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