Drought update from the Russian Riverkeeper

Russian Riverkeeper, March 4, 2014
The slow steady rains yesterday produced the highest inflows of the season to Lake Mendocino and bumped up storage levels by 3,800 acre feet of water! As you can see, we still have a long way to go to get out of this drought and yesterdays rains were very helpful. Keep those positive thoughts, prayers and rain dances coming so we squeeze even more out of the weather system that will come through Wednesday. After a brief break Thursday- Friday we should see another chance of rain by the end of the weekend!

Lake Mendocino storage is measured in acre feet. One acre foot of water equals 325,000 gallons or water for family of 4 for a year or one acre of land with a foot of water on it.