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Water rationing to follow drought, forecasts editorial

Posted by: Maven on February 4, 2009 at 7:50 am

From the Anderson Valley Post, this editorial:

[About our mild weather ...] Flowers usually continue to bloom, lawns to grow and most garden pests to flourish during the winter months down here on the valley floor. We see a thin blanket of snow every third or fourth year, not enough to even get upset about. The children go out early in the morning to build a snowman, if they can scrape together enough material, but by noon the strange white stuff is melting back into the green blades of grass, the sun is shining once again and everything gets back to normal.

And unless you have driven by or flown over Shasta Lake recently, one wouldn’t get too worried about the coming summer months when things get dry and hot.

Those who have recently approached the state’s largest man-made reservoir, however, are tired of seeing the ever-widening ring around the bathtub. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if any day now, the drain plug becomes visible.

Water levels are so low at Shasta Lake that ancient relics long buried are seeing the sunlight once again.

At the risk of sounding too much like Chicken Little, who was ostracized because he said the sky was falling, I’m going to go out on a limb here and predict that unless our weather changes dramatically, and soon, that water rationing will soon follow these dry, spring-like days.

Read more of this editorial from the Anderson Valley Post by clicking here.

February 4, 2009 · Filed Under Conservation, Northern California

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