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Boat launches suspended at Diamond Valley

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on October 4, 2008 at 5:53 am

From the San Diego Union Tribune:

It certainly was no way to celebrate the five-year anniversary of opening day, but there was the Metropolitan Water District yesterday announcing it was indefinitely suspending private boat launches at Diamond Valley Lake, Southern California’s biggest reservoir situated near Hemet.

Low water supply due to the statewide drought is the reason, they say, so as of dusk on Oct. 13, the lake’s 560-foot ramp will be closed to private launches. MWD’s board of directors will discuss possible options for extending the ramp when it meets Oct. 14 for its regularly scheduled monthly meeting. But with Metropolitan getting as little as 10 percent of its allotment of water from Northern California next year and 450,000 acre-feet (or an estimated 40 percent) less from the Colorado River, the prospect of lake water covering the ramp in the near future isn’t good.

“We lose San Vicente, and now we lose Diamond Valley,” said Ramona angler and legendary big-bass fisherman Mike Long, the lake record holder for bass (16.43 pounds) who was fishing there Thursday. “This is really going to hurt.”

Metropolitan has withdrawn 107,000 acre-feet since January, dropping the lake 24 feet. Plans are to withdraw another 90,000 before years end. Read more from the San Diego Union Tribune by clicking here.

October 4, 2008 · Filed Under Metropolitan Water District, Water Storage