Truckee River Vision Plan – comment by July 28, 2024
Open House Thursday, July 11, 4:30 to 7:30 PM at Reno City Hall An email arrived in my inbox yesterday afternoon to announce that in just 48 hours the City of Reno and Washoe County scheduled a meeting to discuss the Truckee River Vision. The public has just 19 days (18 now) to complete an Continue Reading »
Lake Tahoe: dry to wet to dry to wet, again
Extremes likely to continue The water year 2022-2023 will certainly be a wet year. Lake Tahoe and the Truckee River basin both are near or above 200% of snow pack water content for this time of the year. The question is, how much of this exceptional snow pack and water will flow downstream to Pyramid Continue Reading »
Drought Impacts Persist into Spring 2023
Despite above average snowpack Reno and environs continue to see above average snow and rain. The rain and snow over the last several months would seem to indicate the drought conditions over the past two years are gone or nearly so. Sure enough drought conditions have lessened (even gone away in some places), but still Continue Reading »