As of Friday morning, there was just above 48,150 acre-feet of storage in Lake Mendocino, and at the beginning of August, the reservoir was described as being only "62.9 percent of its Target Water Supply Curve."
your business? well, it s not a business that i have. we re all volunteer. it s all a community that we work together at. but each of us individually have family farms that is our livelihood. and gardens of people who depend on their gardens to can for the season so that they have food for the winter months, you know. we live in the country. we are a farming community. this is we re on a water sharing program. so some people have water for a week. then the water went out before they ever got to water. we re going to be out at least 10, 13 days, maybe 15 days at the minimum. when the water comes back on, some of us are going to be off for another week so that we can share the water. there s not enough water for all 688 people to take the water at the same time. so we have to share the water. so, it could be almost three