{"id":2281,"date":"2014-02-21T07:52:09","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T15:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/?p=2281"},"modified":"2014-02-21T07:57:36","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T15:57:36","slug":"drought-could-leave-folsom-lake-levels-too-low-to-pump-to-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/?p=2281","title":{"rendered":"Drought Could Leave Folsom Lake Levels Too Low To Pump To Residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/CBSSAC.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=840065;hostDomain=video.sacramento.cbslocal.com;playerWidth=620;playerHeight=349;isShowIcon=true;clipId=9865266;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=CBS.SAC%252Fworldnowplayer;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=overlay'><\/script><a href=\"http:\/\/video.sacramento.cbslocal.com\" title=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nFederico Barajas is keeping a close eye on water levels on Folsom Lake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe continue to hope for the best, but plan for the worst under the circumstances and the drought we are in today,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why the man who oversees water deliveries at Folsom Dam is keeping a close eye on Folsom Lake. It provides water for Folsom, Roseville and Granite Bay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is a very critical water supply delivery that we have, given that the cities surrounding this facility rely upon that water,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>If the lake level, which is at historic lows, drops close to the intake valve at 320 feet, water from the lake can\u2019t get into the tubes to be pumped to people who need it.<\/p>\n<p>Before the last big rain earlier this month, Folsom Lake got as low as 355 feet, getting dangerously close to the 320-foot level of the intake, where the intake would suck air instead of water.<\/p>\n<p>More at <a title=\"CBSLocal.com\" href=\"http:\/\/sacramento.cbslocal.com\/2014\/02\/20\/drought-could-leave-folsom-lake-levels-too-low-to-pump-to-residents\/\" target=\"_blank\">CBSLocal.com<\/a> &gt;&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federico Barajas is keeping a close eye on water levels on Folsom Lake. \u201cWe continue to hope for the best, but plan for the worst under the circumstances and the drought we are in today,\u201d he said. That\u2019s why the man who oversees water deliveries at Folsom Dam is keeping a close eye on Folsom &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/?p=2281\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Drought Could Leave Folsom Lake Levels Too Low To Pump To Residents<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fish","category-salmon","category-water","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2281"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2286,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281\/revisions\/2286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}