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Volume 162 · Issue 62 | 99¢

Lake levels 8-10-12

Folsom Lake (USBR)
12 a.m. Aug. 10, 2012
Elevation (feet) 424.26 maximum 466
Storage (acre-feet) 563,600 58% of maximum 976,965
Inflow (cubic ft/sec) 1,656
Outflow 2,835 at Nimbus Dam

Sly Park’s Jenkinson Lake (EID)
8 a.m. Aug. 5, 2012
Elevation (ft) 3,463.92 maximum 3,471
Storage (af) 36,594 89% of maximum 41033
Inflow (cfs) 18
Outflow (cfs) 57
Spill (cfs) 0

South Fork of the American River at Kyburz Diversion Dam is 21.6 cfs (Aug. 10, 2012)

Caples Lake (EID)
8 a.m. Aug. 10, 2012
Elevation (ft) 7952.7 gauge height 55.2 max elev 7,959.50 max gauge hgt 62
Storage (af) 18,239 82% 22338
Inflow (cfs) 0
Outflow (cfs) 48

Echo Lake (EID)
8 a.m. Aug. 10, 2012
Elevation (ft) 7,455.36 gauge height 5.36 max elev 7,456.00 max gauge hgt 6
Storage (af) 1730 89% of maximum 1943
Inflow (cfs) 0
Outflow (cfs) 0.22 to Upper Truckee

Lake Aloha (EID)
8 a.m. Aug. 10, 2012
Elevation (ft) 8,200.34 gauge height 10.34 max elev 8,209.70 max gauge hgt 19.7
Storage (af) 614 12% of maximum 5000
Inflow (cfs) 0
Outflow (cfs) 8

Silver Lake (EID)
8 a.m. Aug. 10, 2012
Elevation (ft) 7,202.36 gauge height 18.06 max elev 7,207.00 max gauge hgt 22.7
Storage (af) 6,392 74% of maximum 8,640
Inflow (cfs) 0
Outflow (cfs) 2.45

Loon Lake (SMUD)
12 a.m. Aug. 7, 2012
Elevation (ft) 6,399.70 maximum 6,410.00
Storage (af) 55,620 80% of maximum 69,310
Inflow (cfs) 4
Outflow (cfs) 245

Ice House (SMUD)
12 a.m. Aug. 7, 2012
Elevation (ft) 5,441.30 maximum 5450
Storage (af) 37,820 87% of maximum 43,420
Inflow (cfs) 2
Outflow (cfs) 142

Union Valley (SMUD)
12 a.m. Aug. 7, 2012
Elevation (ft) 4,857.20 maximum 4,870
Storage (af) 230,860 87% of maximum 266,370
Inflow (cfs) 368
Outflow (cfs) 795

Shasta Lake (USBR)
12 a.m. Aug. 10, 2012
Elevation (ft) 1011.65 maximum 1,067
Storage (af) 3,089,700 68% of maximum 4,552,000
Inflow (cfs) 2,476
Outflow, Keswick (cfs) 13,239

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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