{"id":33056,"date":"2017-02-04T13:53:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T21:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=33056"},"modified":"2017-02-04T13:53:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T21:53:03","slug":"senator-gaines-comments-on-californias-massive-snowpack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=33056","title":{"rendered":"Senator Gaines Comments On California\u2019s Massive Snowpack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento, CA&#8230;Senator Ted Gaines (R-El Dorado) reacted to the results of California snow survey, a measurement of the water content of California\u2019s snowpack. This monthly survey is used to determine the amount of runoff the state can expect throughout the spring and summer. Typically, melting snow provides roughly 30-percent of California\u2019s water supply.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ted-gaines-headshot-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ted-gaines-headshot-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"264\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25461\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis snow survey proves that California\u2019s stormy January was a drought-buster. The state is buried under a thick blanket of snow that will keep our reservoirs full all through the summer and make this a better year for recreation, agriculture, and for people who have had to cut back on personal water use.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut all this water also highlights that staggering lack of foresight and political will on the part of politicians who have neglected to build enough water storage to keep up with our growing population. The Sacramento River was recently surging with enough water every day to supply the needs of 150,000 families for an entire year. But instead of capturing that water in reservoirs it was being diverted into open fields or running out into the sea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt won\u2019t matter how much rain and snow we get if we don\u2019t have a way to store it and move it around the state. This extraordinary winter is a gift but we aren\u2019t ready to accept it. I\u2019m tired of delays. I want to see concrete and steel in the ground, workers and bulldozers in action so the next time Mother Nature opens up, California can capture the water it needs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senator Ted Gaines represents the 1st Senate District, which includes all or parts of Alpine, El Dorado, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sacramento, Shasta, Sierra and Siskiyou counties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento, CA&#8230;Senator Ted Gaines (R-El Dorado) reacted to the results of California snow survey, a measurement of the water content of California\u2019s snowpack. This monthly survey is used to determine the amount of runoff the state can expect throughout the spring and summer. Typically, melting snow provides roughly 30-percent of California\u2019s water supply. \u201cThis snow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1599,"featured_media":25461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-communities","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ted-gaines-headshot-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}