California's water storage and delivery systems are in good shape heading into the rainy season, having benefited from last year's near-historic rain and snowfall totals, according to the state's top water managers.
Coming off three years of punishing drought conditions, last year was the sixth wettest on record and the Sierra Nevada snowpack stood at over 200 percent of its historic average in April—just the fourth time since 1950 that's happened, according to data from the California Department of Water Resources.
The 2023"water year"—October 2022 through September 2023 -- was so bountiful that for the first time since 2006, the State Water Project delivered 100 percent of water allocations to the 29 public water agencies and 750,000 acres of farmland it serves in the Bay Area, Central Valley, Northern California and the Central Coast.
"This impressive turnaround has put us in a much better position this season in case we see a return to dry conditions," said Ted Craddock, deputy director of the State Water Project. In addition to providing healthy water delivery volumes, the wet winter allowed state and local planners to divert nearly 391,000 acre-feet of flood water into groundwater aquifers and state agencies to issue permits for an additional 1.2 million acre-feet of water to be used for groundwater recharge, although it's unclear how much of that actually made it in to local aquifers.
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