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Lake levels 3-7-13

Folsom Lake (USBR)
12 a.m. March 7, 2013
Elevation (feet) 422.6 maximum 466
Storage (acre-feet) 549,600 56% of maximum 976,965
Inflow (cubic ft/sec) 2,327
Outflow 1,950 at Nimbus Dam

Sly Park’s Jenkinson Lake (EID)
8 a.m. March 4, 2013
Elevation (ft) 3,467.64 maximum 3,471
Storage (af) 38,893 95% of maximum 41033
Inflow (cfs) 54
Outflow (cfs) 15
Spill (cfs) 0

South Fork of the American River at Kyburz Diversion Dam is 124 cfs March 7, 2013)

Caples Lake (EID)
8 a.m. March 7, 2013
Elevation (ft) 7945.79 gauge height 48.29 max elev 7,959.50 max gauge hgt 62
Storage (af) 14,422 65% 22338
Inflow (cfs) 16
Outflow (cfs) 26

Echo Lake (EID)
8 a.m. March 7, 2013
Elevation (ft) 7,450.00 gauge height 0 max elev 7,456.00 max gauge hgt 6
Storage (af) 0 0% of maximum 1943
Inflow (cfs) 12
Outflow (cfs) 12 to Upper Truckee

Lake Aloha (EID)
8 a.m. March 7, 2013
Elevation (ft) 8,202.27 gauge height 12.27 max elev 8,209.70 max gauge hgt 19.7
Storage (af) 1305 26% of maximum 5000
Inflow (cfs) 14
Outflow (cfs) 7

Silver Lake (EID)
8 a.m. Feb. 28, 2013
Elevation (ft) 7,192.56 gauge height 8.26 max elev 7,207.00 max gauge hgt 22.7
Storage (af) 2,395 28% of maximum 8,640
Inflow (cfs) 28
Outflow (cfs) 24

Loon Lake (SMUD)
12 a.m. March 5, 2013
Elevation (ft) 6,378.10 maximum 6,410.00
Storage (af) 31,540 46% of maximum 69,310
Inflow (cfs) 94
Outflow (cfs) 25

Ice House (SMUD)
12 a.m. March 5, 2013
Elevation (ft) 5,428.20 maximum 5450
Storage (af) 29,990 69% of maximum 43,420
Inflow (cfs) 50
Outflow (cfs) 5

Union Valley (SMUD)
12 a.m. March 5, 2013
Elevation (ft) 4,845.10 maximum 4,870
Storage (af) 200,470 75% of maximum 266,370
Inflow (cfs) 409
Outflow (cfs) 137

Shasta Lake (USBR)
12 a.m. March 7, 2013
Elevation (ft) 1034.31 maximum 1,067
Storage (af) 3,643,600 80% of maximum 4,552,000
Inflow (cfs) 8,534
Outflow, Keswick (cfs) 3,877

Michael Raffety

Michael Raffety

Michael Raffety has been editor of the Mountain Democrat since 1989 and was managing editor beginning in 1986. He was city editor prior to that, having started here in 1978. He was the first person at the Mountain Democrat to be given the title of city editor. He also was an adjunct professor at the El Dorado Center from 1980-2003.
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