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Lake levels 8-16-12

Folsom Lake (USBR)
12 a.m. Aug. 16, 2012
Elevation (feet) 421.32 maximum 466
Storage (acre-feet) 538,900 55% of maximum 976,965
Inflow (cubic ft/sec) 1,602
Outflow 2,779 at Nimbus Dam

Sly Park’s Jenkinson Lake (EID)
8 a.m. Aug. 15, 2012
Elevation (ft) 3,462.24 maximum 3,471
Storage (af) 35,579 87% of maximum 41033
Inflow (cfs) 22
Outflow (cfs) 62
Spill (cfs) 0

South Fork of the American River at Kyburz Diversion Dam is 22.3 cfs (Aug. 16, 2012)

Caples Lake (EID)
8 a.m. Aug. 16, 2012
Elevation (ft) 7951.56 gauge height 54.06 max elev 7,959.50 max gauge hgt 62
Storage (af) 17,584 79% 22338
Inflow (cfs) 0
Outflow (cfs) 58

Echo Lake (EID)
8 a.m. Aug. 16, 2012
Elevation (ft) 7,455.29 gauge height 5.29 max elev 7,456.00 max gauge hgt 6
Storage (af) 1707 88% of maximum 1943
Inflow (cfs) 0
Outflow (cfs) 7 to Upper Truckee

Lake Aloha (EID)
8 a.m. Aug. 16, 2012
Elevation (ft) 8,200.07 gauge height 10.07 max elev 8,209.70 max gauge hgt 19.7
Storage (af) 531 11% of maximum 5000
Inflow (cfs) 0
Outflow (cfs) 8

Silver Lake (EID)
8 a.m. Aug. 16, 2012
Elevation (ft) 7,202.01 gauge height 17.71 max elev 7,207.00 max gauge hgt 22.7
Storage (af) 6,229 72% of maximum 8,640
Inflow (cfs) 0
Outflow (cfs) 5.5

Loon Lake (SMUD)
12 a.m. Aug. 15, 2012
Elevation (ft) 6,396.60 maximum 6,410.00
Storage (af) 51,860 75% of maximum 69,310
Inflow (cfs) 16
Outflow (cfs) 410

Ice House (SMUD)
12 a.m. Aug. 15, 2012
Elevation (ft) 5,439.10 maximum 5450
Storage (af) 36,430 84% of maximum 43,420
Inflow (cfs) 0
Outflow (cfs) 140

Union Valley (SMUD)
12 a.m. Aug. 15, 2012
Elevation (ft) 4,855.90 maximum 4,870
Storage (af) 226,950 85% of maximum 266,370
Inflow (cfs) 489
Outflow (cfs) 1,057

Shasta Lake (USBR)
12 a.m. Aug. 16, 2012
Elevation (ft) 1007.55 maximum 1,067
Storage (af) 2,996,000 66% of maximum 4,552,000
Inflow (cfs) 4,043
Outflow, Keswick (cfs) 12,560

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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