Rising reservoirs: Less room for error this winter on San Joaquin River
(WorldNews Environment)

It was our saving grace: Last winter, a mostly empty New Melones Lake swallowed up torrents of water that otherwise would have had to be dumped into a lower watershed that already was flooding.Without all of that room at New Melones, the damage along the lower San Joaquin River and in the Delta could have been much worse.Today, ......