The Drought At Lake Nacimiento California
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- This is a short film about the drought at Lake Nacimiento, California.
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I find it strange that you allow recreational use of resevoirs. The Greater Vancouver watershed and its three resevoirs are strictly off limits to keep the water clean.
Good point to bring up.
Never thought about that 🤔
Lake Nacimiento is not for drinking though. It is irrigation water for the Salinas Valley
As a human race, we're in deep trouble.
Lake Nacimiento is now Nacimiento Valley
My grandparents had a house there in the 80's and I grew up skiing and fishing for white bass there, many great memories. Very sad to see.
The lake is fun when you can launch your boat. I don't think the public boat ramp by the dam is going to be open for very much longer.
Wow! This is sad. I remember going up their, and lake San Antonio to water ski in the late 70s and 80s. So much for our so-called public stewards that should manage the for the public.
A few good rains this Winter and the lake will fill back up again.
@@JimSheaffer possibly, yet the foolish mismanagement of these resources will just be wasted away again, and the people will suffer the consequences.
Something seems weird about all of these empty reservoir photos where are the beer cans and the bottles?
A metal detectors heaven....cans and bottles for all...
The way they manage the water this is the new norm. I lived in this area my whole life, the lakes were full and Salinas river dry during the summer with a drought now and then. They are releasing water to their diversion facility down stream . The lakes don't have to be this way ,just look how much water is going down the Salinas River.
Thanks for sharing this information.
"Do not, my friends, become addicted to water! It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence!"
~ The Great Immortan Joe
I went out there a few weeks ago !
Yup ! 👍
A metal detectors heaven
Not so much, it's been even lower several times in the past few years, been hit hard by them.
Two bad winters we are in drought conditions. California people no more car washing at home, no more water plants. No more wasteful water usage. California needs to build desalination plants immediately along the ocean. We can't relay on big winters storms to bring water.
The first thing I did when we bought our house here was to rip out all of the grass. Rocks and drought tolerant plants for us! We don't even flush #1down the toilet all day.
Absolutely nuclear powered salt water distilltion is the answer!
@@rgj5832 No, you need toxic solar panels, toxic batteries and massively wasteful windmills! Green idiots will sink this country even more. It's not even green!
Sorry but I am going to keep washing my car at home
@@rgj5832 With Thorium reactors that consume nuclear waste from Uranium reactors though.
Wake up California people. You. Need a million gallon a day desalination plant. Ten years ago.
Diablo Canyon is licensed for exactly that but the Democrats are forcing it's shutdown.
Wow...one thing I can honestly say is that the fishing will be tremendous if you can locate the schools of fish...we used to camp and go fishing there in the 70s...one of the few lakes in California with a white bass population if I remember right....Pray for El Nino to show up...chances are good for a strong El Nino.... because the Tuna are close to shore this year....been they way all my life....hold on relief coming!
The fish have never been wrong in my lifetime....
I've done a little bit of shore casting and kayak fishing at Lake Nacimiento. Didn't catch anything, probably the wrong time of day.
@@JimSheaffer Hey Jim...back in the 70s they was fish galore... nightcrawler from shore is my go to without a boat...set up a fish finder on your kayak and travel around gathering info on where they congregate and the depth....if the fish are at say 30 feet deep run a live minnow down at 30 feet...you can't troll that deep unless you have a down rigger set up....you can make a simple one for your kayak just with 30 feet of cable with downrigger ball and line releaser....you could fit all that into a coffee can... something to mull over....I'm up here at Lake Oroville....we used to have a little Bayliner set up for downrigger... during drought years low lake level the fish bunch up... just have to find them....
@@ericunderwood8080 Thanks for the fishing tips! I hope to get out there soon, before it dries up...HA!!
@@JimSheaffer if you wait long enough...you'll just need a net! hahaha... trolling I use a green and silver deep diver Rapala...good luck...Minnow Rap
theyve seen this coming for litterally years & didnt even outlaw lawn watering.now their crying about the results.i guess when the drinking water is gone they can get moisture from licking the dew from their now dead grass.
Oh yeah, not to mention still using flood irrigation to water fields of farmland, then talking about how it's the least effective method...
In 2019 all reservoirs and dams were full of water. Your Governor Newsome wanted to save a particular fish so he had all the reservoirs and lakes in California drained. Nobody knows how this was supposed to save a fish but nonetheless he did it. Then the drought intensified and there has been no water to fill the lakes and reservoirs again. Stupidity at the highest level caused this problem!
The voters passed 3 water storage bills, the Democrats who control the state did nothing.
Lake Shasta had plans to raise it 5 or 10 feet, and they shot it down.
@@8307c4 stop eating.
Maybe because commercial industries are the ones that use all the water... Why should paying residents suffer when businesses can take all the water the want?
What happened to HARP? Why not use it in California or it just bunches of baloneys?
It's now a frisbee disc golf course
Hello from Kansas 🇺🇸
Hi there from Paso Robles!
Nacimento kinda looks like Kansas now...
returning to the scrub brush and desert landscape.....4 mo of rain a yr is one step above a desert....
A like on the video but I dislike the fact that our home lake is this low.
We’re heading to padro for a week tomorrow hopefully it’s not this bad. Where on the lake is that with the docks sitting on shore?
This was shot at Heritage Ranch by Lake Nacimiento. Don't worry, the lake is at 21% and the public ramp by the dam has one ramp open. Our ramp at Heritage Ranch is closed.
Wow.
We used to go camping there in the 70s, looked the same then , they built lots of houses there after during the realestate boom of late 70s.
Dammed shame , maybe forget about the little lizards and build some dams , while things are dry , people need jobs 🤷♂️
As a X S Ca. Native the ignorance is abounding water is our life blood .
Hope things get better for all of you 🙏🤝
Dams are part of the reason the water is drying up. You can’t store water in an open reservoir without losing significant amounts of water to evaporation and seepage, especially in an arid and hot climate.
@@kutie216 And where does the water come from , where does there electricity come from . Your points are valid , but where will they all go now without ?
Kneel repent and pray
We have a lot of lakes in Florida that look just like that.
California is so screwed!
Tattoo that on your forehead please
this is caused by letting too much water go during the winter.....
This is caused from no rain!!!! We are in a drought here! We got almost no rain last year or this year.
We built million dollar homes there wow now worth 1/2 or less, we need instant hot water in all houses so we stop watching millions of gallons of water going down the drain as we wait for hot water ?????
Stop this population boom of consuming humans living on the western USA. Make less burden on the remaining humans needing water from one river and MOVE east. It's like a good deed for humanity before you die. Get a rolling house and live where rain does fall more often The jet stream doesn't like dark blue ocean and less snow cover up north.
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I say lets tear down some more dams.