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State Water Board: warm winter, low statewide snowpack but reporting compliance near last year
Summary
The State Water Resources Control Board received a water-rights division update showing above-average precipitation in parts of the state and improved reservoir levels, but statewide April 1 snowpack remained well below average; the board was also told roughly 25,000 CalWaters reports (about 60% compliance) were submitted under the new system.
The State Water Resources Control Board on March 3 heard a hydrology update from Jessica Bean of the Division of Water Rights that showed a mixed picture for California’s water year.
Bean said precipitation has been uneven: parts of the southern state have seen above-average accumulations while much of the Sierra snowpack remains low. “As of March 1, we are looking at about 41.2 inches and that is 113% of average for March 1,” Bean said,…
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