Excerpt from California High Water, 1970-1971 The weather pattern for water year 1970-71 was marked by extremes that set several weather records. The year held the wettest November for San Francisco and Stockton, the longest winter drought at Red Bluff, the heaviest 2h - hour rainfall in southern California, and the deepest snowpack at Norden in December and January. The Flood Operations Center was activated on a 2h-hour basis from November 28 through December 29, 1970, and again from January 15 to 20, 1971. No major emergencies arose and the Center had to take no special action. The completion of two new dams this year is expected to ease future flood control operations. Bullards Bar Dam on the North Fork of the Yuba River and New Don Pedro Dam on the Tuolumne River will reduce floods. A series of storms hit the North Coastal Hydrographic Area from October through December, causing flood stages on some rivers. A winter drought occurred from mid-january to early March. A new series of storms moved in during March. No major high water damage was experienced in the area. The San Francisco Bay Hydrographic Area was drenched by November storms that dropped almost three inches of rain on San Francisco and more than four inches of rain on Marin County in one two-day period. Heavy local runoff resulted in both areas, with the Napa River near St. Helena rising nine feet in nine hours. No streams exceeded flood stage. The rest of the water year was marked by a midwinter drought, a wet spring, and intense summer temperatures. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.