Lake of D & K: Where did the water go?

[Fisheromen]

Sutherland is there to collect the water that falls out of the sky and deliver it to the people of SD.

Why deliver so much? Why none last year? Seems there would be middle ground?

[camobass]

Greed $$$$ someone is raking it in.

[VinnyBass]

Greed $$$$ someone is raking it in.

I think you hit it on the head.

[VinnyBass]

I wonder how much water will be in there in a few months? Could be pretty sad.

[Mcfish]

Winter is about done, as soon as the seasonal creeks stop flowing the lake will only get lower...! Don't forget that the City and Water Authorities say that the reservoirs weren't built for fisherman! No kidding! But since they've dumped over 15 billion gallons of water into the ocean this year...what did they build them for??

[camobass]

I imagine the people who managed these reservoirs when they were built didn’t have the same worldview as the people who manage them now. The people running them now are more concerned with what kind of stick figure is on the bathroom doors at the reservoirs instead of how much water is in them.

[Bass]

Greed $$$$ someone is raking it in.

Yes sir, just like Loveland

[Queue]

I imagine the people who managed these reservoirs when they were built didn’t have the same worldview as the people who manage them now. The people running them now are more concerned with what kind of stick figure is on the bathroom doors at the reservoirs instead of how much water is in them.

I fished out there yesterday. Caught some fish, took some photos. Showed my dad the photos and he said the water level was around the same level as when he fished there almost 70 years ago as a child. While I think the city could have left a dozen feet more or so of water in the lake so the lake is launchable the rest of the fishing season, I don’t think the current water mgmt strategy is anything new.

[camobass]

50’s? I would imagine it was a drought year if the lake was that low??? San Diego population was no where near today’s. Maybe they pumped all the water in the oceans back then too? Different times today

[Mcfish]

I imagine the people who managed these reservoirs when they were built didn’t have the same worldview as the people who manage them now. The people running them now are more concerned with what kind of stick figure is on the bathroom doors at the reservoirs instead of how much water is in them.

I fished out there yesterday. Caught some fish, took some photos. Showed my dad the photos and he said the water level was around the same level as when he fished there almost 70 years ago as a child. While I think the city could have left a dozen feet more or so of water in the lake so the lake is launchable the rest of the fishing season, I don’t think the current water mgmt strategy is anything new.

What I remember is that if we had some back to back drought years, it would naturally deplete the lake's water level. Whenever we had an above average year, you could rely on the lake level being up for the next few years. What does seem new is the last several years the City takes the lake down to minimum pool no matter how the rainy season ends up! After last years record rains, the lake was up to near record heights, and now 10 months later the lake is down 40' with the main ramp unuseable. In the rest of California now, most lakes are 95%-100%+...in San Diego, half our lakes are not even close! Where'd our water go...look out in the ocean! Sutherland's water is in San V, that will make the wakeboarders happy this summer!

[professionull]

I would like to know who uses the excuse "Southern California is in a drought and water needs to be conserved." Clearly that isn't the case anymore not because they are draining the lakes because the "dam is too old to hold." If it was such a real problem, they wouldn't continue to build sardine packed housing tracks on any bit of open land possible. Whomever is getting rich off this needs to be removed and so do the corresponding patreons

[The_Outdoor_Chase]

Global warming

[Mcfish]

I would like to know who uses the excuse "Southern California is in a drought and water needs to be conserved." Clearly that isn't the case anymore not because they are draining the lakes because the "dam is too old to hold." If it was such a real problem, they wouldn't continue to build sardine packed housing tracks on any bit of open land possible. Whomever is getting rich off this needs to be removed and so do the corresponding patreons

The building industry and unions own the politicians, it with only get worse with the Mayor and City Council we have...obviously people in San Diego want us to end up like L.A...or they wouldn't keep voting this way!