The water supply in Placer County is also off to a promising start, as the winter progresses. The Water Agency says their first snowpack survey of the season in the American River basin is 100-percent of the 30-year average. Public Affairs Manager Ross Branch says that’s three times higher than the peak achieved last year, thanks to the El Nino weather pattern…

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The encouraging weather comes at the same time the State Water Resources Control Board considers extending current conservation mandates in the spring, or after the last snow survey, or reducing mandates, depending on precipitation levels. Branch says the maximum reductions would be 4-percent…

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Branch says the Placer County Water Agency’s conservation mandate is 32-percent. He says their last measurement, in November, was 36-percent, and the overall average, since the mandate was imposed, is 31-percent.