Residents of Lassen County, California, are baffled after an
artificial lake dried up, seemingly overnight, leaving thousands of dead fish
across 5,800 acres of mud.
People were fishing at Mountain Meadows Reservoir, also
known as Walker Lake, on Sept. 12, Eddy Bauer, who has lived near the lake his
whole life, told local news station. By the next day, he said, the lake was
totally dry.
Doug Carlson, with the state Department of Water Resources,
said he fears drought will create similar situations throughout the state. “The
reservoirs are all continuing to be far below normal,” Carlson told CBS
Sacramento. “We are reliant upon rainfall to fill those lakes, of course, and
until we get more rain, we’re not likely to see any appreciable increase in the
reservoir levels,” Carlson said.
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