Reading Mono Lake's level on April 1, 2023

Mono Lake Committee Restoration Field Technician Robbie Di Paolo reads the lake level gauge at Mono Lake for the annual April 1 reading. The elevation of the lake is 6379.99 feet, just below the 6380.00 threshold that would have allowed the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (DWP) to quadruple their allowed stream diversions. The level means that DWP can proceed to export 4,500 acre-feet of water in the runoff year ahead, although there is little need for it in this wet year and the Committee has asked that diversions be temporarily suspended until the lake rises to the higher, healthy level mandated by the State Water Board. Learn more at monolake.org.

[@ericwiltz6584]

With the winter you just had, how come they don't do more to get the lake back to a reasonable level?

[@memecats5698]

Lousy sound.