State Water Officials Estimate Deliveries for 2013
By
Amy Quinton
Thursday, November 29, 2012
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California water officials say farmers and others who rely on the State Water Project can count on at least 30 percent of the requested water amount in the coming year.
The Department of Water Resources says the initial allocation
is always conservative since it's made before the rainy
season.
90-percent of the state's snow and rain comes between December
and April.
This week's storm is giving the State Water Project an early
boost and the water supply is expected to increase as more storms
roll in.
The Project's main reservoir, Lake Oroville, is at 50-percent
capacity which is not unusual this time of year.
Meanwhile, the mountain snowpack currently has about
58-percent of its average water supply.
The State Water Project supplies water to more than 25-million
Californians in the southern and central parts of the state …and
almost a million acres of farmland.