Sacramento-area water officials warned Wednesday that Folsom Lake could be 96 percent empty by next January under a federal plan to increase water releases.<\/p>\n
t’s just bad. It’s just bad,” said Tom Gohring, executive director of the Sacramento Region Water Forum, a coalition of water agencies.<\/p>\n
Gohring spoke at a meeting of the State Water Resources Board about a proposal by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.<\/p>\n
Reclamation officials have said they plan to begin releasing more fresh water from Folsom Lake and Lake Oroville in order to push back the saltwater that infiltrates the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta during drought conditions.<\/p>\n
“We are having to make a lot of difficult decisions,” said Erin Curtis, a Reclamation spokeswoman. “And releasing extra water from Folsom right now is one of those.”<\/p>\n
A historically low snowpack has already left Folsom and several other California reservoirs at below-average levels.<\/p>\n
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