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It's one thing to hear about a record drought, it's another to actually see it.
I was rather shocked when I saw the remains of the New Melones Reservoir on the border between Calaveras and Tuolumne counties last Monday. This tree had been submerged for more than thirty years. Building foundations from a village that used to be here start popping up. The bridge is 450 feet high and the watermarks on the pillars show where the water level used to be. The level continues to drop by about 4 inches per day, which equals 120 feet in a year, with about 30 feet left in the reservoir. Easy to figure out how much longer that will last; hard to imagine how long it will take to fill it up again, even with an unlikely string of record wet winters. EOS 5D2, 21/2.8 ZE @ f/5.6 A great photograph is absorbed by the eyes and stored in the heart.
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by James W. Milligan
on Fri Sep 05, 2014 9:25 am
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by Gary Briney
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by Glenn NK
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