Lake San Antonio closed for the season due to low water levels
Photo by Tom Seidel.
Due to extremely low water levels, access to Lake San Antonio has been closed for the 2015 season. The closure will go into affect on July 1.
The Monterey County Water Resources Agency reports that the lake is at five percent capacity as of Wednesday, June 3.
Information as to the permanency of the closure is not yet available. Click here to follow local lake water levels.
Is this due to California's drought or previous years water mismanagement?
Yep, probably!
Not a result of previous years of mismanagement.
Drought. Lack of rainfall. Call it what you will… San Antonio water is captured in the winter (rainy) months so that it can be released throughout the summer. The water flows down (up, actually, the Salinas River runs northward) the Salinas River so that the lake water discharge can eventually prevent saltwater from the blue Pacific ocean from creeping up the Salinas Valley groundwater aquifer. This is a phenomenon called saltwater incursion.
As far as I know there are no significant end-user draws upon the lake (like golf courses or vineyards).
Thats crazy because im out here in Oklahoma and we got so much rain water that our lakes are overflowing!!! You all can take all this water with you!!!
Everyone knows California is in very bad shape water wise!!!
I'm very happy for Oklahoma.
If I remember correctly. Lake San Antonio also feeds Lake Naciamento, who's pumps went down recently (for salt water incursion) and put an even more serious drain on our lake. Naciamento is also connected to pipelines feeding two other cities further south. Can't remember which ones.
I feel really bad for California because i lived there for 18 years and i never dreamed things would get that bad for that state of all places!!!
Is this due to California's drought or previous years water mismanagement?
Yep, probably!
Not a result of previous years of mismanagement.
Drought. Lack of rainfall. Call it what you will… San Antonio water is captured in the winter (rainy) months so that it can be released throughout the summer. The water flows down (up, actually, the Salinas River runs northward) the Salinas River so that the lake water discharge can eventually prevent saltwater from the blue Pacific ocean from creeping up the Salinas Valley groundwater aquifer. This is a phenomenon called saltwater incursion.
As far as I know there are no significant end-user draws upon the lake (like golf courses or vineyards).
Thats crazy because im out here in Oklahoma and we got so much rain water that our lakes are overflowing!!! You all can take all this water with you!!!
Everyone knows California is in very bad shape water wise!!!
I'm very happy for Oklahoma.
If I remember correctly. Lake San Antonio also feeds Lake Naciamento, who's pumps went down recently (for salt water incursion) and put an even more serious drain on our lake. Naciamento is also connected to pipelines feeding two other cities further south. Can't remember which ones.
I feel really bad for California because i lived there for 18 years and i never dreamed things would get that bad for that state of all places!!!