Spring Runoff Won’t Fix Much
This new low point for the lake comes before the spring runoff season, which officials say will probably raise water levels. But dry conditions could persist even throughout the normally wet spring season. Last month, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted that much of the western U.S. will experience an abnormally dry spring this year. These conditions add on to the ongoing drought in the Southwest, which researchers labeled in February the worst drought in the region in more than 1,000 years.
“Spring runoff will resolve the deficit in the short term,” Wayne Pullan, regional director for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, told the AP. “However, our work is not done.”
