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Reservoir and Drought

Here is Uvas Reservoir now, during our drought. The water is usually much higher.

Uvas Reservoir

Still, that is better than it was five months ago before we had even modest rain amounts. Here is the same spot in October below.

Uvas Reservoir

Below is another part of Uvas reservoir now, during our drought.

Uvas Reservoir

You have to go a ways down to get to the water. Still, that is better than it was in October as seen below.

Uvas Reservoir

It is amazing how many gallons of water that difference represents at just one of many reservoirs we have. I look forward to comparing these photos to future wet and dry years. Interestingly, when it is wet, or wetter, dry, or drier, there always seems to be people out here finding some form of recreation. I didn’t capture it in photos but there are at least 20 people around me as I took these photos on both dates fishing, walking, relaxing, and taking photos.

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Uvas Reservoir

Uvas Reservoir nearly empty

This photo was taken from “inside” the Uvas Reservoir just before last week’s rain. many things are interesting about this and about the time spent standing “in” there, thinking. One neat thing about this was this tree stump. The dam was built in 1957 and this tree has presumably been submerged ever since. Or, at least, most of the time ever since. Maybe it was exposed in other droughts? Certainly it was submerged every time I had happened to ever visit the reservoir here in the Santa Clara County Park. Either way, this tree was once a tree along Uvas Creek before there was a reservoir about it. This tree has been sitting under water for most of 64 years, brushing up against fish and snails and water molecules for decades.