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Central Oregon still dealing with drought impacts despite recent heavy rain, snowfall
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Cascades, Mt Bachelor snowpack well below average; summer water issues loom again
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(Update: adding video, info, comments from Deschutes Basin watermaster)
Irrigation districts, customers will be running out of water
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) In the 75-year history of the Wickiup Reservoir, water levels have never been this low so early in the summer.
Water is commonly measured in acre feet. Deschutes Basin Watermaster Jeremy Giffin said Friday the reservoir west of La Pine is at 28,000 acre-feet of water. To put it into perspective, Giffin said it would be measured at 130,000 acre-feet in a normal year.
One acre-foot is about 326,000 gallons, or enough water to cover an acre of land, which is about the size of a football field, one foot deep.