{"id":2978,"date":"2015-11-17T08:18:58","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T16:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/?p=2978"},"modified":"2015-11-17T08:18:58","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T16:18:58","slug":"folsom-lake-water-level-shrinks-to-new-historic-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/?p=2978","title":{"rendered":"Folsom Lake Water Level Shrinks To New Historic Low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The water level of <a href=\"http:\/\/sacramento.cbslocal.com\/2015\/11\/12\/rep-ami-bera-tours-folsom-lake-while-touting-support-for-sites-reservoir-plan\/\">Folsom Lake<\/a> has dipped to a new historic low.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday the lake level was measured at 140,410 acre feet. The previous record was set in November 1977 when the lake decreased\u00a0to 140,600 acre feet.<\/p>\n<p>Recent rain has provided a little help, but there\u2019s still a long way to go.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe may have a very wet winter, but if we don\u2019t have dramatic snowfall and so forth we\u2019ve got to still be conscious we\u2019re still living through this drought,\u201d he Rep. Ami Bera during a recent tour of the lake.<\/p>\n<p>As has been long discussed, Bera says the state must find better ways to store water and he\u2019s pushing the proposed Sites Reservoir, a potential water storage option west of Colusa. The planned reservoir would hold twice the water of Folsom Lake.<\/p>\n<p>More at <a href=\"http:\/\/sacramento.cbslocal.com\/2015\/11\/17\/folsom-lake-shrinks-to-new-historic-low\/\" target=\"_blank\">CBSLocal.com<\/a> &gt;&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The water level of Folsom Lake has dipped to a new historic low. On Sunday the lake level was measured at 140,410 acre feet. The previous record was set in November 1977 when the lake decreased\u00a0to 140,600 acre feet. Recent rain has provided a little help, but there\u2019s still a long way to go. \u201cWe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/?p=2978\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Folsom Lake Water Level Shrinks To New Historic Low<\/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":[209,12,28,13,6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-fish","category-history","category-salmon","category-water","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978","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=2978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2979,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978\/revisions\/2979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}