Thousands of fish lay dead in what used to be Mountain Meadows reservoir also known as Walker Lake, a popular fishing hole just west of Susanville.
“Everywhere that you see that’s wet, there was water,” said resident Eddie Bauer.
Residents say people were fishing on the lake last Saturday, but it drained like a bathtub overnight. Bauer has lived near this lake his entire life. This is the first time he’s ever seen it run dry. He and other residents want answers.
Pacific Gas & Electric Company owns the rights to the water and uses it for hydroelectric power. So, it did not just mysteriously drain. The water was sucked out by PG&E. It’s just the entire scenario could have been avoided, but it wasn’t. The media and the companies hide the truth and soon it takes on a strange “mysterious” legendary quality usually reserved for Area 51 and Roswell.
It’s the situation we worked hard to avoid but the reality is we’re in a very serious drought, there’s also concerns for the fish downstream,” said spokesman Paul Moreno.
Bauer says there should’ve been at least two weeks of water left and that would’ve given PG&E enough time to relocate the fish.
“This makes me feel like they didn’t want to do a fish rescue and that it was easier to open that sucker up Saturday night,” Bauer said.
PG&E officials say nobody opened the dam up and the water simply ran out.
No matter who’s to blame, residents here worry, this could happen in other areas of the state.
“The reservoirs are all continuing to be far below normal,” said Doug Carlson with the Department of Water Resources.
He says there’s no question water concerns are still a serious issue across the state.
“We are reliant upon rainfall to fill those lakes of course and until we get more rain we’re not likely to see any appreciable increase in the reservoir levels,” he said.
Source: CBS
At Folsom Lake, workers are finishing work on floating barges that would pump water to the city of Folsom and the prison if the lake gets too low for the water to flow through an intake valve.
smells fishy to me.
The U.S.Federal Government are allowing State Leaders, and Corporations to kill off the earths natural habitats endangering human lives! Do they not understand people need water to survive?
This is the same people that
I smell Obama.
Alex Fierro
Isaiah 50
State broke
You could be right on with that thought
Yep and they are more than likely involved. Don’t worry California you can buy that water bavk in liter bottles for around a dollar a piece.
we have kicked god out of americas churches homes schools wht would he help us he maybe turnin his back on america