Lake Shasta is at 75% Capacity

By Lloyd Kahn on January 9, 2017


Or 118% of what is usually stored at this time of year. See the comment below from Steve.
Above chart is from: https://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/reports/DROUGHTSUM

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Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include Shelter, Shelter II (1978), Home Work (2004), Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008), Tiny Homes (2012), and Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:
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One Response to Lake Shasta is at 75% Capacity

  1. Lloyd,
    Your title is a bit misleading. Shasta is at 75% of capacity, which at this time of year is 118% of what is usually stored. Most dams keep an actual account of what is currently stored and what is incoming. They also keep the same records for the dam by date to use for regulating the dam during storms and other occurrences. My father was the water master of the Kaweah River which is currently at 14% of capacity, but 155% of normal. We sit along the demarcation of northern storms that you might get, and southern storms. That means we sometimes don't get rain that Northern CA areas get.

    Thanks for the info. We drove by Kaweah Lake yesterday and were commenting on how low the lake was in comparison to the high river flow upstream in Three Rivers where they were concerned about flooding.

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