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Are dry years here to stay?
Stanislaus River flow data reflects trend toward less snow
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Water trickles into Lake Oroville from the Feather River last weekend mirroring conditions on the Stanislaus River Are dry years here to stay? - photo by Photo courtesy Department of Water Resources
The South San Joaquin Irrigation District is guaranteed water — providing it snows in the Sierra. There are all kinds of agreements, legal documents, understandings and adjudications that make it so. But it has to rain.