Lake Tahoe Was Flooded With 6.4 Billion Gallons of Water in 24 Hours
More than 6 billion gallons of water have poured into Lake Tahoe in less than two days, helping the lake begin to recover from four years of crushingLake Tahoe Was Flooded With 6.4 Billion Gallons of Water in 24 Hours
Looks like it needed it, too.
More
than 6 billion gallons of water have poured into Lake Tahoe in less
than two days, helping the lake begin to recover from four years of
crushing drought.
Since
midnight Monday, the lake has gone up 1.92 inches, the equivalent of
6.39 billion gallons of water, according to the National Weather
Service. The water comes as a winter storm slams the Sierra, bringing
several feet of snow to higher elevations and rain at lake level, which
sits at roughly 6,223 feet.
The
lake—the second deepest in the United States behind Oregon's Crater
Lake—was hit hard this year by the drought. Over the summer, the lake
was shockingly low. Many boaters were unable to get their crafts into
the lake after waters pulled back from most boat launches.
From: SFGate
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