A dozen days of wet and wild weather haven’t ended the drought and won’t cure the driest period in the West in the past 1,200 years.
— the largest reservoir of the State Water Project, with a capacity of 3.5 million acre feet — was 28% full in early December and now is just shy of 50%. That’s an increase of 700,000 acre-feet, and experts predict it could rise by almost 500,000 more before February. Still, Oroville and most of the state’s other major reservoirs remain mostly empty.
Among the many problems with this onslaught is that so much rain has fallen in such a short time. This doesn’t just damage structures and harm people; it also makes it challenging to store the water. In any rain event, much of the water will fall downstream of any dam, making it difficult or impossible to capture.
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