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The Lake Berryessa News

January 12, 2026

 
Lake Berryessa Statistics (1/12/26)

 

Lake Berryessa has essentially stopped rising. We will need about 7 inches of rain to overflow Glory Hole.
 
Rainfall at Monticello Dam remains at 17.02 inches for the rain year.
 
Lake Berryessa water level has risen slowly during the last few days with no rain to 436.3 feet, 3.7 feet below Glory Hole.
 
The lake output has increased slightly to 95 cfs or 188 AF/day.
 
When full (Glory Hole level) the lake contains 1,551,292 Acre-Feet of water.
 
Lake capacity is now at 1,482,390 Acre-Feet or 95.6%
 
Water temperatures remain constant at 53.5 degrees.

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Lake Berryessa has risen more than 5 feet since January 1st to 436.3 feet -
up 2 feet in the last week. The lake level is still 3.7 feet below Glory Hole. We need about 7 inches of rain to put the lake level over Glory Hole.

Glory Hole Watch 2026 is in full swing. The Lake Berryessa News website went from 50 hits per day to 800 per day in just a week. www.LakeBerryessaNews.com (being updated) is the best place to learn just about everything there is to know about Lake Berryessa and its world famous Morning Glory Spillway, affectionately known as Glory Hole since Monticello Dam was built 68 years ago.
 
Lake Berryessa's Glory Hole (Morning Glory Spillway) was used in a question on Jeopardy (1/7/26). See the video at:
Lake Berryessa's Glory Hole (Morning Glory Spillway) on Jeopardy (1/7/26)
 https://youtu.be/JuBoc21L5NM

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The 26 for 26 Program Begins!

My sincere thanks to those of you who have donated to The Lake Berryessa News in the past. Due to your support, the Lake Berryessa News has been able to continue publishing as costs continued to rise. Our social media presence and our email newsletters will provide the news you need and more...
 
https://www.lakeberryessanews.com/
 
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064928340101
 
If you wish to receive our email newsletter, please send your email address to pkilkus@gmail.com.
 
Remember, without The Lake Berryessa News there would be no Lake Berryessa news. I challenge you to find any reporting like the stories you find on our social media sites and in our email newsletters.
 
If you love Lake Berryessa and the Lake Berryessa News in all its forms and want to support the Lake Berryessa community as it is revitalized, please send a donation check of $26 (or more if you feel so inclined) made out to Peter Kilkus (not the Lake Berryessa News) and mail it to Peter Kilkus, 1515 Headlands Drive, Napa, CA 94558. You can stick crinkly old bills in an envelope with your contact information and send it to the same address. You can also use Venmo (@Peter-Kilkus) or Paypal (Peter Kilkus) if you wish. (Note: Your donation is NOT tax deductible)
 
Your decision to support the Lake Berryessa News will show your vote of confidence in the future of the Lake Berryessa community. Hopefully, 2026 will be a positive year in the revitalization process for the lake. I’ll continue to do my best to keep you informed about every detail affecting Lake Berryessa.
 
Thanks, Peter

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Glory Hole Watch 2026 is getting exciting. For historical perspective, watch Evan Kilkus' Lake Berryessa News drone videos of the dramatic rise of Lake Berryessa as it finally spilled over Glory Hole on 2/16/17 after an 11-year drought at:

https://youtu.be/bGJvofIyTwQ   1/11/17: 10"+ of Rain Takes Its Toll, But Lake Berryessa is Rising 
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https://youtu.be/PRWAfVw9DBU    2/10/17: Lake Berryessa Is Almost Full
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https://youtu.be/8pIPsgLFggk   2/12/17: Lake Berryessa Splashes Over Glory Hole -With a Little Help

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https://youtu.be/EH0LQW7iduY  2/12/17: Breathtakingly Beautiful Drone Tour of Lake Berryessa
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https://youtu.be/cB0BKIm1EzM 2/16/17: Lake Berryessa Is Full &Splashing Over the Spillway
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https://youtu.be/uQp0QConILY 2/18/17: Lake Berryessa Is Spilling 1 Foot Over Glory Hole
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Original ACDC version of: 2/18/17: Lake Berryessa Is Spilling 1 Foot Over Glory Hole
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https://youtu.be/-iHAjOrrU4k 2/21/17Lake Berryessa is 3.5' OVER the Glory Hole Spillway
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https://youtu.be/qhPzR2Gqzs0 2/24/17: Another Breathtaking Drone Tour of a Full Lake Berryessa

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The following report is another excellent review by Tim Carl in Napa Valley Features (https://napavalleyfocus.substack.com/) of the economics of the wine issues facing the Napa County, including the Lake Berryessa region. The Lake Berryessa News is a subscriber.

Napa Valley Features has expanded its coverage to Sonoma County Features (https://sonomacountyfeatures.substack.com/about) and Lake County Features (https://lakecountyfeatures.substack.com/about). It's a great way to learn bout our nearest neighbors.

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Wine Supply Outruns Demand
By Tim Carl
NAPA VALLEY FEATURES
https://napavalleyfocus.substack.com/p/under-the-hood-wine-supply-outruns

The U.S. wine industry is now producing far more wine than current drinking patterns can absorb, with total weekly supply close to three times self-reported demand. Even after calibrating for under-reporting so that the year 2000 appears roughly in balance, the 2025 market still looks about 60% oversupplied, implying that roughly one out of every three gallons would need to come out of the system to restore equilibrium. Over the same period, Gallup data show that fewer adults drink at all, those who do drink consume less, and wine ranks as the third most common choice behind beer and spirits. For regions like Napa Valley, this points to a structural reset rather than a temporary downturn, with long-term consequences for vineyards, jobs and local public finances.

Napa Valley’s economic foundation is shifting. While wine and tourism remain central, oversupply and changing demand have exposed deep vulnerabilities. Housing and resort construction has outpaced job creation, worsening affordability and eroding the middle class. The data are clear: To build a sustainable future, local strategy must move beyond growth-by-habit and focus on creating durable, well-paying jobs.

By the end of 2025, the core problem in the American wine business is simple to describe. There is more wine than there are drinking moments to absorb it. Based on how people say they drink today; the U.S. market comfortably supports the equivalent of roughly 150 million glasses of wine a week. Yet domestic producers and foreign suppliers together are putting in enough wine to fill something closer to 420 million glasses a week. Even after adjusting for under-reporting in the surveys, the system has become deeply overbuilt.

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Who Actually Drinks

The United States has about 340 million residents. Roughly 21% are under 18, which leaves around 267 million adults. Of those adults, Gallup’s 2025 Consumption Habits survey finds that only 54% say they drink alcohol at all. That gives us about 144 million adults in the “I drink” group. The rest either never drank, stopped drinking or drink too rarely to be counted.

Within that group, wine is not the default choice. In the latest data, beer is still the top “usual drink,” spirits are close behind and wine comes in third. When you apply those shares, you get on the order of 55 million adults who mainly reach for beer, about 43 million who mainly reach for spirits and about 42 million who say wine is their usual drink, with a small remainder who do not pick a favorite. A waterfall chart shows that the pool of “core wine people” is not the whole country. It is closer to one in eight Americans.

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How Much They Drink

The second constraint is how often those people drink. Among adults who do drink, Gallup now finds an average of 2.8 drinks in the past week. Over a year, that adds up to about 146 drinks per drinker, or roughly 12 drinks a month. On a typical day it is well under half a drink.
In the early 2000s, the picture was quite different. Then, about 63% of adults said they drank, and drinkers reported roughly 4.6 drinks a week. That works out to around 239 drinks a year for the typical drinker.

From Drinkers to Wine Demand

To see what this means for wine, you have to scale up from individuals to the whole country. Around 2005, with a population of about 296 million, a drinking rate of roughly 63% and 4.6 drinks a week among drinkers, the United States was generating on the order of 850 million alcoholic drinks a week. If that behavior had simply held as the population grew, today’s “drink budget” would be near 1 billion drinks a week.

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It did not hold. With about 340 million people, a 54% drinking rate and 2.8 drinks a week, today’s drink budget is closer to 514 million drinks a week. In round terms, the system ended up with roughly half as many weekly drink occasions as the growth assumptions from the early 2000s would have suggested.


To translate those drink occasions into wine, this analysis gives wine a conservative 30% share. That yields the green “actual weekly wine demand” line in the graph below, which falls from roughly 260 million weekly wine drinks in the mid-2000s to about 154 million today. The orange line shows where weekly wine demand would sit if that early-2000s drinking pattern had simply held as the population grew. The red diamond marks 2025 total wine supply — U.S. production plus imports — converted into weekly drink equivalents. At roughly 420 million weekly wine drinks, it is close to three times the demand implied by today’s drinking patterns.

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Lines show estimated weekly U.S. wine demand under a steady-growth scenario (orange) and under actual self-reported drinking behavior (green). The red diamond marks 2025 total wine supply — domestic production plus imports — converted into weekly drink equivalents, which now sits just above the expected-demand path but far above demand implied by recent drinking patterns. Sources: Gallup Consumption Habits surveys; Wine Institute U.S. wine production and consumption statistics; Napa Valley Features calculations.


How Production Has Moved

On the supply side, we use Wine Institute data for U.S. production and standard industry estimates for total wine available in the United States (domestic plus imports, net of exports). In 2024, U.S. wineries produced about 650 million gallons. After adding net imports, roughly 870 million gallons of wine were available in the U.S. market. For this analysis, we treat net imports as the gap between total wine available and U.S. winery production in a given year.

Converted into glasses, that 870 million total gallons becomes roughly 22 billion glasses of wine a year, or about 420 million weekly wine drinks. That 420 million figure is the red diamond on the “Wine Supply vs. Expected and Actual Weekly Demand, 2000–2025” graph — total wine supply in 2025, expressed on the same scale as the demand lines.

Looking back over time, total wine supply has been in that general range for much of the past decade. Domestic production peaked in the mid-2010s and has since slipped, but not enough to match the drop in demand implied by the drink budget.

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Line shows how much larger the gap between total wine supply (domestic production plus imports) and self-reported wine demand is in each year compared with 2000, which is set as the baseline. By 2025 the gap is roughly 60% larger than in 2000. Sources: Gallup Consumption Habits surveys; Wine Institute U.S. wine production and consumption statistics; Napa Valley Features calculations.

The simple line chart is painfully clear. In 2000, total wine supply and calibrated demand was roughly the same — that is, they were in balance. In 2025, calibrated demand is around 270 million weekly wine drinks, while total wine supply is around 420 million. The gap — about 150 million weekly wine drinks — represents the oversupply after we have already corrected for under-reporting. The point is, that even after correcting for under-reporting, there is much more supply than demand in 2025 compared to anytime in the last 25 years.

In round terms, that means the industry would need to turn off about one out of every three gallons currently produced or brought into the country to bring supply in line with what the drink budget will support. Against a total supply of roughly 870 million gallons — the red diamond on the “Wine Supply vs. Expected and Actual Weekly Demand, 2000–2025” graph — that implies an overshoot of about 550 million gallons.

Put simply, on an unadjusted basis the system would need to shed close to two out of every three gallons now flowing into the U.S. market to bring wine supply back in line with what people say they drink.

What This Means for Napa

This analysis sets that local experience against a national backdrop and asks whether the market those acres feed still exists at the scale the industry was built for.

Twenty-five years ago, the calibrated numbers suggest a wine market that was roughly in balance and still had room to grow. Today, even after adjusting for under-reporting, the same approach shows a market that is about 60% oversupplied. On a stricter, unadjusted basis the gap is closer to three times what people say they actually drink. A category that once worried about keeping up with demand is now producing far more wine than its drinkers can reasonably absorb.

That does not mean wine disappears from Napa. It does mean the adjustment ahead is structural, not a passing slump. Turning off on the order of one out of every three gallons in the system will not happen without permanent change. Some brands, business models and vineyards will not come back. For a community whose jobs, tax base, services and sense of place are so closely tied to wine, planning for that reality matters more than hoping higher prices, new labels or louder marketing will somehow restore a demand curve that no longer exists.

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January Headlines

Trump Eloquently Wins Over Democrats With Calm And Truthful New Year Message Of Kindness
 
Both Things Can Be True, Says Man Lying Twice
 
Bloated Nation Struggling To Work Way Through Leftovers
 
Trump Assures Struggling Nation He Has Plenty Of Money
 
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
 
Study Finds Processed Meats Carcinogenic But They Were On Sale
 
Grandma Who Survived Great Depression Casually Drops That She Once Killed Man For Mayonnaise
 
Northern California Family Informed Their Insurance Policy Voided Once House Gets Wet
 
Horrified Taylor Swift Realizes Football Happens Every Year
 
News Happening Faster Than Man Can Generate Uninformed Opinions on Social Media
 
Report: Every Place On Earth Has Wrong Amount Of Water
 
Nation’s Therapists Refuse To See You Anymore Because You Scare Them
 
God To Delete Several Million Humans Due To Inactivity
 
Finance Whiz Has More Than $300 In Bank Account
 
12-Year-Old Spends Entire Family Hiking Trip Fantasizing About Which Video Game He’ll Play When He Gets Home
 
Introverted Cowboy Struggling To Round Up Posse
 
Wealthy Dad Surprises Child With Tree House He Can Airbnb For Passive Income
 
In A Familiar Repeat Of History, Americas Citizens Plan To Break Away From The King And Create Their Own New Government
 
Breaking Report: Arbitrary Economic Marker Crosses Arbitrary Milestone

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January Horoscopes

Aries (3/21-4/19): Life throws us all crazy things now and then. Like swords made of ham. And dogs on skateboards.

 
Taurus (4/20-5/20): Everything you think about yourself will not be called into question this week. Many of your problems can be solved by sitting down with a pen and paper and doodling pictures of houses and perhaps tornadoes.
 
Gemini (5/21 – 6/21): When in danger, you have a tendency to run away quickly. Harness that ability today as you'll need it sometime around 4pm.
 

Cancer (6/22-7/22): Whilst bad things can happen in quick succession, it takes an absolute genius to screw up an entire life within 30 minutes.


Leo (7/23-8/22): The randomness of the universe may affect you today as you search for meaning in a cornflake that looks like your nose.
 
Virgo (8/23-9/22): People older than you often ask your opinion because you are a trend setter and a marvelous role model for society in general.
 
Libra (9/23-10/22): Any satisfaction you had about not having a police record, may be undone today.
 

Scorpio (10/23-11/21): When asked to perform in a successful jazz band, consider all your options before accepting.


Sagittarius (11/22-12/21):
Today might be the day when you get stuck in a hole with a dwarf. Remember all the research you did into dwarf habits in order to prevent mental breakdown.

Capricorn (12/22-1/19):
Most of your ideas will turn out to be excellent ones today. Avoid having too many ideas, otherwise you may fall from your vaunted station.

Aquarius (1/20-2/18): The number of times you walk into a door will today cause you to seek out new ways of thinking.
 
Pisces (2/19-3/20): Screaming loudly only serves to wake the neighbors. They'll only investigate once they're sure you're dead and the murderer has left the crime scene.

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Jet Skis Rock: A Video History of Jet Ski Racing
 by Peter Kilkus
 When does history actually become HISTORY?


Jet Skis Rock You Tube List Final (12/3/25)


Full Jet Skis Rock Playlist

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0Bt3jedg7wO7FVqZnOyzZE2x3Tb1cgLP

Jet Skis Rock 1, Introduction
https://youtu.be/j_nLtRl_fzc

Jet Skis Rock 2, The Beginning, Peter & Evan's First Race (2001)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGGDPRLkDVM


Jet Skis Rock 3, Jet Ski & Snowmobile Ramp Jumps
https://youtu.be/DMbDUj77-CI

Jet Skis Rock 4, Ocean Wave Jumps (2002)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf_koAH_E48

Jet Skis Rock 5, Racing Action
https://youtu.be/8uLa6hhHPBk

Jet Skis Rock 6, Crash & Rescue
https://youtu.be/VurSqs5B0CU

Jet Skis Rock 7, Jet Ski Crashes & Jumps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiL_5gpd8yg

Jet Skis Rock 8, Jet Ski Extreme Racing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwPiYa84fiY

Jet Skis Rock 9, Nashville Watercross Nationals (2002)

https://youtu.be/RHT1Gjb7LWk
 
Jet Skis Rock 10, Indoor Racing Paris Bercy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC--vCcm7K0

 
Jet Skis Rock 10-1: First Indoor Paris Bercy Jet Ski Races, (July 4, 1990)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzciJV5hKH0&t=242s

 
Jet Skis Rock 11, Pahrump Las Vegas (2003)
https://youtu.be/bAncbEZPEZk
 
Jet Skis Rock 12, Argyll Park, CA (2004)
https://youtu.be/cTcAo5ZK7H8
 
Jet Skis Rock 13, Escape from Alcatraz Event (2004)
https://youtu.be/IyrE58c7WdE
 

Jet Skis Rock 14, Western States Cup Promo (2005)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5-yCyqiN5U

 
Jet Skis Rock 15, Western States Cup (2005)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCNEZcbU02s

 
Jet Skis Rock 16, Lake Havasu World Finals (2001)
https://youtu.be/xQBCDaRM-rk
 

Jet Skis Rock 17, Evan Wins, Awards & Family (2003)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG4Ynyx2G2Q

 
Jet Skis Rock 18, Lake Havasu World Finals (2003)

https://youtu.be/TCYhatEoOfM                

 
Jet Skis Rock 19, Lake Havasu World Finals (2004)
https://youtu.be/Onom_vN6tXk 
 
Jet Skis Rock 20, Lake Havasu 2006, Race, Freestyle, People
https://youtu.be/XdVnTcaZ6dM
 
Jet Skis Rock 21, Freestyle Example - Lee Stone
https://youtu.be/u9zd2o7bpEE
 
Jet Skis Rock 21-1, Jet Ski Freestyle, Havasu World Finals 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YEYQuWo7-Y
 
Jet Skis Rock 21-2, Jet Ski Freestyle, Havasu World Finals 2022, Lee Stone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s_q9SEE65U
 

Jet Skis Rock 22, Nedra Atwood, #1 Fan Interview
https://youtu.be/tVrRGTH2Bi8
 
Jet Skis Rock 22-1, World Finals 2017 - Nedra Atwood Interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNlAdqhsJPk&t=8s
 
Jet Skis Rock 22-2, Nedra's Song - A tribute to PWC's #1 fan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjFoG-hqksc
 
Jet Skis Rock 23, Hot Water- the Movie (2021)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EV9EuOEr6c

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Track the real-time Lake Berryessa weather at:
 
 
Skiers Cove (Below the Berryessa Highlands)
Skier Cove - KCANAPA228
https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KCANAPA228
 
East Side Road (Across from Big Island)
East Side Road, Lake Berryessa - KCALAKEB2
https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KCALAKEB2
 
Spanish Flat (Near the Spanish Flat Recreation Area)
Roger - KCASPANI1
https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KCASPANI1
 
Berryessa Pines
KCANAPA461
https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KCANAPA461
 

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Lake Berryessa Fire Watch Cameras


This site covers the whole Lake Berryessa Region.

http://www.rntl.net/lake-berryessa-cams/

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Free Book Chapters Available For Download


My sincere thanks to those of you who contributed to the future of the Lake Berryessa News. I challenge you to find any Lake Berryessa news anywhere. Hopefully, the many years of our intensive reporting about the latest Lake Berryessa issues will convince you of the truth of our motto, "Without The Lake Berryessa News there would be no Lake Berryessa news".

Here's a gift from The Lake Berryessa News to my readers - Free downloadable chapters from my books:


Lake Berryessa Technical Manual: The Science, Engineering, History, and Humor of a Major Unnatural Resource:

The Death of a Valley

Why Does Lake Berryessa Exist?

The Lake Berryessa Watershed

Rainfall and Lake Level History

How High Is Lake Berryessa?

How Deep is Lake Berryessa?

How Much Water Does Lake Berryessa Hold?

Mean Sea Level: Is There Such A Thing As Accurate Height?

Water In, Water Out, But From Where?

Does the WALROS Like Lake Berryessa?

Why is Lake Berryessa Not a Part of the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument?

East Side Story

Hiking and Wildlife Viewing

Are There Quail on Quail Ridge?

Why Does A Hiker Cross The Road? To Get To Stebbins Cold Canyon!

Private Houseboats - Yes; Private RVs & Trailers - No: Why?

Motorized Boats Banned From Big Island Lagoon! Why!

Archeologists Can't Dunk But Can Dig

What Can't You Do At Lake Berryessa?

Napa Opposes Building the Monticello Dam

Monticello Dam Construction
Raise Monticello Dam

Power Generation at Monticello Dam

Monticello Dam Failure Analysis

Predicting the Future & Glory Hole Drone Videos

As Lake Berryessa Turns!

The Ins and Outs & Ups and Downs of Lake Berryessa

Does Lake Berryessa Sweat in the Summer?

Glory Hole Introduction

How Does Glory Hole Work?

Glory Hole: Awesome, Frightening, But Dangerous?

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Lake Berryessa Political History (Free Downloads of Book Chapters)

Policy And Politics Betray The People: The Lake Berryessa Saga: 1958 - 2020, By Peter Kilkus

 
I. The Five Tragedies Of The Berryessa Valley: A History Of Heartbreak
 
II. Lake Berryessa Political History Timeline
 
III. The “Big Lie”: How It All Began
 
IV. The “Big Fail”: Napa Abandons Lake Berryessa (1975)
 
V. The “Big Picture”: Lake Berryessa Issues: 1957 - 2012
 
VI. The “Big Illusion”: Notice Of Intent
 
VII. The “Big Fight”: Facts Do Matter
 
VIII. The “Big Betrayal”: Perversion Of Public Law 96-375
 
IX. The “Big Mistake”: Pensus - The Beginning Was The End!
 
X. The “Big Hole In History”: Post-Pensus Blues
 
XI. The “Big Boondoggle”: Creation Of A Phony National Monument
 
Addendum 1. Dueling Napa Register Letters To The Editor
 
Addendum 2. The Napa Register View
 
Index Of  Primary Documents

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Lake Berryessa Technical Manual: The Science, Engineering, History, and Humor of a Major Unnatural Resource

 https://www.amazon.com/Lake-Berryessa-Technical-Manual-Engineering-ebook/dp/B0C21DZ9M9/ref=sr_1_3?

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Policy and Politics Betray the People: The Lake Berryessa Saga: 1958 - 2020
https://www.amazon.com/Policy-Politics-Betray-People-Berryessa-ebook/dp/B08MFSQDBR/ref=sr_1_1?
 
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Conspiracy Theory or Automatic Pilot: The Economic Roots of Environmental Destruction

 https://www.amazon.com/Conspiracy-Theory-Automatic-Pilot-Environmental/dp/1676368302/ref=sr_1_3?


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The KPIX Eye on the Bay interview below is one I did in 2010 and a relevant introduction to the substance of the book. 
I did it after Pensus had been given the contract for 5 resorts. As we all know Pensus was subsequently kicked out in 2012. 

https://youtu.be/nP9K8Ai0Lkc

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Lake Berryessa Data Sources

There are many sources of Lake Berryessa water and weather conditions available. The Solano County Water Agency site is good for real-time graphs of level, capacity, and water temperature. The California Data Exchange Center has data going back decades for level, capacity, capacity change, dam outflow, dam inflow, and rainfall. Anyone can research their own data and create custom charts. This is the source of many of the charts on the Lake Berryessa News website.

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An upgraded wildfire alert camera system will be keeping watch on Napa County day and night and notifying Cal Fire crews of potential fires. Twenty cameras will be part of a system that will use artificial intelligence and other technologies to identify fire and smoke. If they detect something, an alert will sound in the Cal Fire emergency command center near St. Helena.

Cal Fire has made a large investment into the ALERTCalifornia system, partnering with UC San Diego. There are 1,000 cameras across the state and Napa County is one of the test models.
Cameras can see 60 miles during the day, and this can increase to 120 miles on clear nights, with the changes in the air. The system can differentiate among smoke, clouds and dust. A link to this camera system and other relevant weather data is available on the Lake Berryessa News website at: http://www.rntl.net/lake-berryessa-cams/

This website was created by Doug Kunst. It is an amazing resource for Lake Berryessa fire cameras and weather. His business website is http://www.rntl.net/

Lake Berryessa Fire Alert Cameras

http://www.rntl.net/lake-berryessa-cams/


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 Real-Time Lake Level, Lake Capacity, Water Temperature
 
Solano County Water Agency
 
https://www.scwamonitoring.com/LakeBerryessa/
 
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Lake Detailed Historical Data
 
California Data Exchange Center
 
https://cdec.water.ca.gov/
 
Research historical data and create custom plots
 
Lake Berryessa Code: BER
 
https://cdec.water.ca.gov/dynamicapp/sensorplots?staid=ber&dur_code=D
 
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Local Weather Stations (Weather Underground Network)
 
Skiers Cove (Below the Berryessa Highlands)
Skier Cove - KCANAPA228
https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KCANAPA228
 
East Side Road (Across from Big Island)
East Side Road, Lake Berryessa - KCALAKEB2
https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KCALAKEB2
 
Spanish Flat (Near the Spanish Flat Recreation Area)
Roger - KCASPANI1
https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KCASPANI1