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Lake levels 9-6-12

Folsom Lake (USBR)
12 a.m. Sept. 6, 2012
Elevation (feet) 416.02 maximum 466
Storage (acre-feet) 496,000 51% of maximum 976,965
Inflow (cubic ft/sec) 1,242
Outflow 2,016 at Nimbus Dam

Sly Park’s Jenkinson Lake (EID)
8 a.m. Sept. 5, 2012
Elevation (ft) 3,458.84 maximum 3,471
Storage (af) 33,571 82% of maximum 41033
Inflow (cfs) 17
Outflow (cfs) 50
Spill (cfs) 0

South Fork of the American River at Kyburz Diversion Dam is 21.6 cfs (Aug. 31, 2012)

Caples Lake (EID)
8 a.m. Aug. 31, 2012
Elevation (ft) 7948.23 gauge height 50.73 max elev 7,959.50 max gauge hgt 62
Storage (af) 15,724 70% 22338
Inflow (cfs) 2.2
Outflow (cfs) 62

Echo Lake (EID)
8 a.m. Aug. 31, 2012
Elevation (ft) 7,454.95 gauge height 4.95 max elev 7,456.00 max gauge hgt 6
Storage (af) 1594 82% of maximum 1943
Inflow (cfs) 0
Outflow (cfs) 1.2 to Upper Truckee

Lake Aloha (EID)
8 a.m. Aug. 31, 2012
Elevation (ft) 8,198.79 gauge height 8.79 max elev 8,209.70 max gauge hgt 19.7
Storage (af) 222 4% of maximum 5000
Inflow (cfs) 0
Outflow (cfs) 8

Silver Lake (EID)
8 a.m. Aug. 31, 2012
Elevation (ft) 7,200.96 gauge height 16.66 max elev 7,207.00 max gauge hgt 22.7
Storage (af) 5,744 66% of maximum 8,640
Inflow (cfs) 0.88
Outflow (cfs) 4

Loon Lake (SMUD)
12 a.m. Aug. 21, 2012
Elevation (ft) 6,393.80 maximum 6,410.00
Storage (af) 48,370 70% of maximum 69,310
Inflow (cfs) 0
Outflow (cfs) 55

Ice House (SMUD)
12 a.m. Aug. 21, 2012
Elevation (ft) 5,437.20 maximum 5450
Storage (af) 35,290 81% of maximum 43,420
Inflow (cfs) 0
Outflow (cfs) 21

Union Valley (SMUD)
12 a.m. Aug. 21, 2012
Elevation (ft) 4,852.20 maximum 4,870
Storage (af) 217,780 82% of maximum 266,370
Inflow (cfs) 115
Outflow (cfs) 833

Shasta Lake (USBR)
12 a.m. Sept. 6, 2012
Elevation (ft) 995.73 maximum 1,067
Storage (af) 2,736,700 60% of maximum 4,552,000
Inflow (cfs) 957
Outflow, Keswick (cfs) 9,534

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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