{"id":306,"date":"2023-04-22T00:47:38","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T00:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scwcshareholders.org\/?p=306"},"modified":"2023-04-22T00:49:52","modified_gmt":"2023-04-22T00:49:52","slug":"california-wet-sheep-creek-water-company-still-dry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scwcshareholders.org\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"California Wet, Sheep Creek Water Company Still Dry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to everyone in California who isn&#8217;t a Sheep Creek Water Company customer.\u00a0 The state has announced that 100% of all requested allocations from the State Water Project and Central Valley Water Project are 100% filled for water customers in California.\u00a0 This wet winter has sure had some lovely surprises between the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DustinMulvaney\/status\/1648931936528896000\">spring blooms<\/a> and now full water allocations.<\/p>\n<p>Unless you are a Sheep Creek Water Company water customer, of course.\u00a0 We are still stuck in what is termed in <a href=\"https:\/\/scwcshareholders.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Sheep_Creek_By-Laws_2017-full-size.pdf\">the bylaws<\/a> (p. 31) &#8220;a severe water supply decrease&#8221; and so our water allotment per share remains ridiculously small.\u00a0 And the moratorium drags on and on&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h1 class=\"headline\">A wet California boosts water allocations to 100% for first time in nearly 20 years<\/h1>\n<p>https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2023-04-20\/california-boosts-water-allocations-after-wet-winter-full-reservoirs<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For the first time since 2006, California officials have increased allocations from the vital State Water Project to 100% of requested supplies, as reservoirs across the state are nearing capacity and an epic snowpack has yet to melt.<\/p>\n<p>An unusually wet winter brought unprecedented snowfall and a succession of heavy rainstorms, pulling much of the state out of a punishing years-long drought and transforming the year\u2019s water outlook.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith reservoirs nearing capacity and snowmelt runoff starting to occur, [the state Department of Water Resources] now expects to deliver 100% of requested water supplies, up from 75% announced in March,\u201d state officials said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Thursday, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced a corresponding increase to 100% of requested water allocations for most regions served by the federal\u00a0<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usbr.gov\/mp\/cvp-water\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Central Valley Project<\/a>, which provides critical farming irrigation and water supplies to the San Joaquin Valley, San Francisco Bay Area and Central Valley.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to everyone in California who isn&#8217;t a Sheep Creek Water Company customer.\u00a0 The state has announced that 100% of all requested allocations from the State Water Project and Central Valley Water Project are 100% filled for water customers in California.\u00a0 This wet winter has sure had some lovely surprises between the spring blooms and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-waternews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scwcshareholders.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scwcshareholders.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scwcshareholders.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scwcshareholders.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scwcshareholders.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/scwcshareholders.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/scwcshareholders.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scwcshareholders.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scwcshareholders.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scwcshareholders.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}