{"id":3012,"date":"2016-01-20T14:25:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T22:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/?p=3012"},"modified":"2016-01-20T14:25:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T22:25:42","slug":"thanks-el-nino-44-foot-rise-of-folsom-lake-offers-hope-for-californias-worst-ever-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/?p=3012","title":{"rendered":"Thanks El Ni\u00f1o! 44-foot rise of Folsom Lake offers hope for California&#8217;s worst ever drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California lake levels are rising as fast as the stock market is falling, with Folsom Lake east of Sacramento rising an astonishing 44 feet in just over a month and Lake Oroville, the second most expansive water storage facility in the state rising another 20 feet.<\/p>\n<p>Early December saw Folsom Lake, just off Highway 50 on the way up to South Lake Tahoe, dwindle to the hydrological equivalent of a mud puddle.<\/p>\n<p>It reached its lowest levels since they started filling it up after building the dam of around 349 feet above sea level.<\/p>\n<p>Today, it has risen over 44 feet to just under 393 feet above sea level.<\/p>\n<p>More at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/el-nino-california-drought-folsom-lake-6772009.php\" target=\"_blank\">SFGate.com<\/a> &gt;&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California lake levels are rising as fast as the stock market is falling, with Folsom Lake east of Sacramento rising an astonishing 44 feet in just over a month and Lake Oroville, the second most expansive water storage facility in the state rising another 20 feet. Early December saw Folsom Lake, just off Highway 50 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/?p=3012\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thanks El Ni\u00f1o! 44-foot rise of Folsom Lake offers hope for California&#8217;s worst ever drought<\/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":[4,209,12,3,13,6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-trail","category-boating","category-fish","category-rafting","category-salmon","category-water","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012","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=3012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3013,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012\/revisions\/3013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}