Lake levels 12-28-12

Folsom Lake (USBR)
12 a.m. Dec. 27, 2012
Elevation (feet) 427.86 maximum 466
Storage (acre-feet) 594,700 61% of maximum 976,965
Inflow (cubic ft/sec) 11,762
Outflow 7,078 at Nimbus Dam
9,971
Sly Park’s Jenkinson Lake (EID)
8 a.m. Dec. 25, 2012
Elevation (ft) 3,459.33 maximum 3,471
Storage (af) 33,857 83% of maximum 41033
Inflow (cfs) 21
Outflow (cfs) 22
Spill (cfs) 0

South Fork of the American River at Kyburz Diversion Dam is 53.7 cfs (Dec. 28, 2012)

Caples Lake (EID)
8 a.m. Dec. 28, 2012
Elevation (ft) 7947.02 gauge height 49.52 max elev 7,959.50 max gauge hgt 62
Storage (af) 15,073 67% 22338
Inflow (cfs) 0.36
Outflow (cfs) 8

Echo Lake (EID)
8 a.m. Dec. 28, 2012
Elevation (ft) 7,450.50 gauge height 0.5 max elev 7,456.00 max gauge hgt 6
Storage (af) 158 8% of maximum 1943
Inflow (cfs) 13
Outflow (cfs) 21 to Upper Truckee

Lake Aloha (EID)
8 a.m. Dec. 28, 2012
Elevation (ft) 8,203.58 gauge height 13.58 max elev 8,209.70 max gauge hgt 19.7
Storage (af) 1863 37% of maximum 5000
Inflow (cfs) 1
Outflow (cfs) 3

Silver Lake (EID)
8 a.m. Dec. 28, 2012
Elevation (ft) 7,196.73 gauge height 12.43 max elev 7,207.00 max gauge hgt 22.7
Storage (af) 3,927 45% of maximum 8,640
Inflow (cfs) 14
Outflow (cfs) 22

Loon Lake (SMUD)
12 a.m. Dec. 26, 2012
Elevation (ft) 6,388.70 maximum 6,410.00
Storage (af) 42,630 62% of maximum 69,310
Inflow (cfs) 133
Outflow (cfs) 537

Ice House (SMUD)
12 a.m. Dec. 26, 2012
Elevation (ft) 5,427.70 maximum 5450
Storage (af) 29,710 68% of maximum 43,420
Inflow (cfs) 78
Outflow (cfs) 165

Union Valley (SMUD)
12 a.m. Dec. 26, 2012
Elevation (ft) 4,836.10 maximum 4,870
Storage (af) 179,590 67% of maximum 266,370
Inflow (cfs) 1,019
Outflow (cfs) 717

Shasta Lake (USBR)
12 a.m. Dec. 27, 2012
Elevation (ft) 1019.4 maximum 1,067
Storage (af) 3,272,500 72% of maximum 4,552,000
Inflow (cfs) 13,061
Outflow, Keswick (cfs) 4,750

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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