With docks perched on sand and vehicles parked where buoys once floated, anyone heading out to Folsom Lake can see right away that the water level is low.<\/p>\n
“We’re getting dangerously low,” said a fisherman who was out at the Lake Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The reservoir, which is used for municipal and industrial purposes, is 11 percent\u00a0lower than is was this time last year, according to the Department of Reclamation.<\/p>\n
“Last year we were at about 42 percent\u00a0of capacity, this time of year; this year we are at about 33 percent\u00a0in Folsom,”\u00a0Department of Reclamation’s Lewis Moore said.<\/p>\n
Moore said it’s not just Folsom where water levels are low. because of back-to-back below average annual precipitation amounts, all of the region’s reservoirs have dropped from 57 percent\u00a0capacity last year down to 41 percent\u00a0this year.<\/p>\n
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