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State increases water flows to Central Valley
SACRAMENTO February 26, 2010 10:05am 
• State Water Project boosts allocation to 15 percent • ‘One of the lowest allocations in the history of the State Water Project’ The California Department of Water Resources says those who buy water from the State Water Project should get 15 percent of their contracted amounts this year, thanks to heavy snowfall in the Sierra Nevada.
The allocation had been set at 5 percent.
“This is still one of the lowest allocations in the history of the State Water Project,” says DWR Director Mark Cowin.
The water content of the snowpack is slightly above average in all of the mountain range for the first time in three years. Still more snow is expected this weekend from a strong Pacific storm.
Lake Oroville is still only 54 percent of average, Mr. Cowin says. “San Luis Reservoir is 80 percent of average.”
“After three years of drought the watershed of very dry and we’re seeing less run off because of that,” he says.
But there is a good chance there will be a revision upward in the allocations, “likely in the 35-40 percent range,” he says.
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