Lopez Lake was at 22 percent of full capacity in early December, but it is now at over 90 percent following a historic amount of rain falling on the state.
A California lake is set to overspill for the first time in over two decades due to the great mount of rain descending on California.
Lopez Lake, in San Luis Obispo County, 10 miles east of Arroyo Grande, was at 22 percent of its full capacity at the beginning of December 2022. It was very close to being at the lowest level ever recorded. But currently, it is at over 90 percent its capacity, and experts expect it to overspill any day now. This would be the first time the lake has spilled in 25 years, KEYT reported.Brian Wilder, Lopez Lake supervising park ranger told KEYT:"We're about 5 feet from the spillway, which means water will start going over the spillway and that's at about 522 feet, so we're about 5 feet below that. Came up about 25 percent in the last week, which is really impressive for Lopez.
A stock photo shows the ground parched from drought. Water levels of California reservoirs and lakes are improving after heavy rainfall.The creeks and waterways are all flowing fast and heavy, Wilder said. The usually slow-moving lake is flowing at a rate of a tenth of a percent every two hours,"which is fast for here," he said.
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