Feds Cautious About Water Deliveries To California Farmers

Despite recent rains and above-normal snowpack, and increasing reservoir levels, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is cautious about this year’s water allocation for California growers. The bureau manages dams that serve farmers in the Central Valley. 　 Friday, the agency said carryover storage into 2016 was just 24 percent of capacity for six Central Valley Project reservoirs: Shasta, New Melones, Trinity, Folsom, Millerton and the federal portion of San Luis. Farmers in the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys receive water deliveries from the project.