Lake Shasta Update: On the Brink of Full Capacity

Lake Shasta Update: On the Brink of Full Capacity - May 2024

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Welcome to the Lake Shasta water level update for May 2024. With the water level at California's largest reservoir reaching 1,061 feet 2 inches, Lake Shasta is just inches away from full pool. After a historically wet winter, the reservoir's capacity is booming, standing at 96% full, with potential record highs in sight. But with early snowmelt and more rain expected, managing the water levels is becoming a challenge.
In this episode, we dive into detailed statistics, compare the current water levels to past years, and discuss the potential need for using the spillway as water levels rise. We also take a look at Lake Oroville, which has already reached full capacity this season.
🔹 What's Inside:
- Comprehensive stats and insights on Lake Shasta's rising water levels.
- Discussion on the impact of early snowmelt and additional rainfall.
- A look at Lake Oroville's status and the rapid increase in its water level.
Hit that like button if you find this update informative, drop your thoughts in the comments, and don't forget to subscribe for more updates from California's water reservoirs!
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Chapters:
00:00 Welcome to timeBomb
01:06 Lake Shasta Stats
04:08 Almost Full
05:19 Melting Snowpack
06:16 Oroville Update

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@stevedolan5065 Ай бұрын

Spent a few years boating and skiing on Shasta in the summers in the late 50’s early 60’s…I don’t ever recall seeing it anything close to what it is now. Over the decades I have taken many vacations in my RV UP through the area from SoCal…still one of my favorite places. Great memories!

@RealChoice1776 12 күн бұрын

Your videos are always dead on and provide amazing info, we all appreciate your efforts and are thankful for you details and expertise. God bless America

@johncornell3665 Ай бұрын

Great to see water levels so high. Thanks for a well-done video!

@janegardener1662 Ай бұрын

Awesome news! Great to see Shasta full again.

@sheldonengstrom4415 Ай бұрын

Lake Mead and Lake Powell will be next to fill

@albutterfield5965 Ай бұрын

About 35 years ago my family (wife and kids) had a 40' house boat on lake Shasta those where the good old days trying to spend at least 1 full week during the kids summer vacation and many weekend trips

@drscopeify 14 күн бұрын

It was so sad to see Shasta at such low water levels in 2022 when I drive over i5, it was awesome to see it fill in 2023 slowly but surly and now at fool pool before the level falls for the rest of the year. Thank you for these great updates.

@t.4325 Ай бұрын

Thank you for this update. It sure is encouraging. We prayed so much for Californias water supply and are grateful to know the biggest problem now is too much water. We will pray for the levels to be managed well as the snow pack melts.

@bertblue9683 Ай бұрын

The Easter Bunny has as much say in it as does your false prayers to a different functional character.

@oceanmariner Ай бұрын

It stores a lot of water, but destroyed the Salmon on the Sacramento River. The first salmon cannery on the West Coast was on the Sacramento River in West Sacramento. I remember years when less than 10 salmon passed Sacramento.

@brettbuck7362 Ай бұрын

I think people are more important than salmon. If storing more water means no salmon (or snail darters, etc), so be it.

@janegardener1662 Ай бұрын

They're in the process of removing the dams on the Klamath right now. The salmon should experience a resurgence on that river within a few years.

@haveraygunwilltravel Ай бұрын

And all the farms that use that water to feed people now no longer exist. Maybe they can all go there and catch salmon by their teeth but hey Chinese factory ships will have more salmon to feed themselves.

@joesutherland225 Ай бұрын

@@brettbuck7362yup help mother nature put human race into extinction, that is the logical conclusion to your opinion

@joesutherland225 Ай бұрын

@@janegardener1662far more complicated than just removing the dams unfortunatley.

@mattdonohue7131 Ай бұрын

I'm glad that someone is keeping track of our water supply and putting it into perspective my making videos. s

@kindnuguz Ай бұрын

Full pool and spillways running is always a beautiful sight Now we need this kind of news westward to Lake Mead, imagine if Lake Mead could be at full pool (dreaming I know)

@Frank00 Ай бұрын

Full pool is not any type of accomplishment, full pool and releasing the spillways means they didn’t dump enough water for that not to happen. Spillways are opened as a last ditch effort to avoid topping of the dam.

@vectr0nmusic Ай бұрын

we got the old voiceover guy back!

@suspicionofdeceit Ай бұрын

He’s been back for awhile and it’s the actual channel creator

@barrydysert2974 Ай бұрын

Nice update sans alarmism

@bukboefidun9096 Ай бұрын

I remember the 2 dry winters, 75-76, 76-77.. I moved to Tahoe in 77. I did not realize that was the nadir of Lake Shasta. .I do remember how careful we had to be with every drop of water.

@papasquat355 Ай бұрын

I can't help but think of the panic during the mega-drought years. No one thought it would end. Then it did. I guess we've forgotten about el Nino and la Nina cycles.

@Frank00 Ай бұрын

People forget why and how the dam works. It worked as it was intended that water would not run out. So far it has worked as to its design.

@7.3PSDA2 Ай бұрын

Nice! this is awesome!!!

@JCknows Ай бұрын

Thank you ❤ YHWH ELOHIYM BLESS YOU ALL AMEN.

@fitzbuff1308 Ай бұрын

Let's just remember, now that the lakes are restored, that every single drop of water is precious and that there's not just and unending supply of this natural resource. Careful maintenance and oversight combined with water conservation is the key to keeping the lakes pristine and beautiful. Thanks to everyone who had a hand or played a part in this wonderful news.

@bertblue9683 Ай бұрын

Gonna start washing my Porsche twice a week, whether it needs it or not.

@Onchorynchusify Ай бұрын

Yeah but humans are stupid

@Frank00 Ай бұрын

It is never ending that’s why it’s full

@joekulik999 Ай бұрын

The simple reason why drinking water is so "precious" is because Big Business & Big Govt refuse to desalinate sea water. The experts ( read "Establishment Hacks ) say that that desalination is not cost effective given present technology, yet Israel gets 80% of its drinking water from 4 desalination plants on the coast. The reason why good drinking water is so precious, my friend, is because the Powers That Be want it to be that way.

@gextreme2381 28 күн бұрын

Don't you worry - somehow there will be some new fabricated "crisis" next year to take its place. The planet will never run out of water. But government will find a way to make us feel it financially.

@Frank00 Ай бұрын

It always comes back, no surprise here

@DaveHalpernShortSale Ай бұрын

Unlike Cincinnati chili, the Hoosier State's version mixes spaghetti (or elbow macaroni) into the chili, and its consistency resembles soup.

@Me97202 Ай бұрын

Cincinnati chili is the best! Don’t live there, so I have to make do with canned Skyline.

@joehopfield Ай бұрын

You wait until 4:00 to point out that feet of water is not linear with volume, after confusing feet based stats. Bar charts are seldom useful, here useless.

@user-oo1ps9bo3j Ай бұрын

Blue Gold 🙏❤️✌️🌍🤔🥸😎🙃😳😃

@raywright4799 Ай бұрын

Shasta lake is at full pool. There are trees in the water

@user-vb8yf8be3l Ай бұрын

The state will do everything in its power to make sure this never happens again

@JTA1961 Ай бұрын

Sad but true

@deaneclark7786 Ай бұрын

1:51 “Armospheric” rivers??

@itsrachelfish Ай бұрын

He left it there to see if we'd notice

@buckpr5387 Ай бұрын

ATmospheric rivers . . . 'rivers' in the sky. www.google.com/search?q=atmospheric+river+california&oq=atmospheric+river+&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0i512l9.13397j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

@soullivankhamtun1687 Ай бұрын

Technically, can the access water from Lake Shasta and Lake Oroville be transferred by California aqueduct to Salton sea using gravity?

@Onchorynchusify Ай бұрын

Wtf? No!

@drscopeify 14 күн бұрын

No that is super far away it is over 600 miles away. Shasta is at the most northern edge of the state and Salton Sea is at the most southern of the state they are basically on the opposite sides so super far away.

@yourguidetorights3909 Ай бұрын

water levels will stay high with all the people leaving the state. We did our part, escaping in 2012. LET'S GO GAVIN !!!

@dougn2350 29 күн бұрын

Good Riddance

@itsrachelfish Ай бұрын

1:49 the label says "Armospheric riverrs".. you don't even check your graphics for typos before posting! 🤣

@lesley5914 Ай бұрын

At Time Stamp 1:52 it says “Armospheric” instead of Atmospheric. Is that a Freudian slip? 😅

@mike_w-tw6jd Ай бұрын

Why can't dams be designed to use an overtopping spillway that allows a 100% lake level?

@bertblue9683 Ай бұрын

You should do research before asking dumb questions.

@russcrawford3310 Ай бұрын

Does that "full pool" elevation take in account the remaining snowload upstream? ... it would be a shame if that melted all at once and overflowed your little dam there ... I've seen that happen just a couple hundred miles up the I-5 ... we empty our reservoirs in the fall here in Oregon, one atmospheric river fills them in a week flat, on average, every 100 years ...

@jameshallahan4376 Ай бұрын

Couldn’t take the heat or taxes of California and if you don’t have some overpaid pensioned govt job you are suffering financialy

@gabrielchiodo285 Ай бұрын

Stop saying sea level, no one wants to hear about sea level. Just say the how deep the water is.

@psychiatry-is-eugenics Ай бұрын

Water is precious , but also wasted by our worthless politicians

@4agoodlife Ай бұрын

I checked there web site and their dropping the water levels.

@bertblue9683 Ай бұрын

You knew their, there and they're were different and you really made an attempt at it. But an epic and classic fail. Go back to third grade and come back afterwards.

@JamesAnderson-lq8tf Ай бұрын

@@bertblue9683 "they're were" makes no sense Mr. English teacher. Go back to third grade and come back afterward.