slgwv's photos with the keyword: drawdown

Westernmost of the Three Lakes, a set of small reservoirs in the upper reaches of the North Fork of the Feather River, California. This is _not_ necessarily drought--you expect the maximum drawdown in the late fall, before the winter snowpack comes. I don't know, tho, whether there's been much of a snowpack this winter. The inset is a view a bit more to the left.

Westernmost of the Three Lakes, a set of small reservoirs in the upper reaches of the North Fork of the Feather River, California. This is _not_ necessarily drought--you expect the maximum drawdown in the late fall, before the winter snowpack comes. I don't know, tho, whether there's been much of a snowpack this winter.

Great Basin cottonwood ( Populus fremontii ) on the shore of Lahontan Reservoir on the Carson River, western Nevada, turning color with the onset of fall. It's been nearly undermined by the high water level during the extraordinary spring of 2017. The reservoir is now drawn down at the end of the irrigation season, and hopefully refills with the spring runoff. The light-colored triangular object in the tree at upper right looks to be a plastic shopping bag stuck on a branch! Looking north; the inset shows this tree from the other side.

Great Basin cottonwood, Populus fremontii . On the edge of Lahontan Reservoir, on the Carson Reservoir in western Nevada. Wave action from the high water level in spring 2017 has nearly toppled this tree! The reservoir is now low due to the end-of-season drawdown.

Lahontan Reservoir floor exposed by the end-of-season drawdown. On the Carson River, Nevada. The parallel-ish lines result from wave action when the shoreline was at that level. Hopefully it refills next spring!

Lahontan Reservoir on the Carson River, Nevada, at pretty much maximum drawdown at the end of the irrigation season. The reservoir is about 30% of capacity here. The idea is that it gets refilled next spring by runoff from the Sierra Nevada snowpack. (We hope!) The short bluff in the foreground is a wave-cut bench resulting from the unprecedented water levels two years ago. The inset is a view of the wide, wide beach exposed by the drawdown!