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DROUGHT: SNOWPACK IS VIRTUALLY GONE
Wanton water use now could create major health & safety disaster in 2023
STAN WATERSHED
The view of the eastern edge of the Stanislaus River watershed Sunday from Sonora Peak. The snowpack in a normal water year looks like this in mid-August.
The snowpack on the far reaches of the Stanislaus River watershed Sunday was as anemic as it gets in mid-August. Atop the 11,404-foot summit of Sonora Peak — the highest and eastern most point where water from melting snow makes its way into the middle fork of the Stanislaus River — the view was reminiscent of a typical precipitation year leading up to Labor Day and not the Fourth of July weekend.