Alarming and scary’: Trump’s California water decisions prompt flood fears

LOS ANGELES (KTLA) – The administration of President Donald Trump has followed through on his promises to “turn on the water” in California, but the state’s residents might not be benefiting as much as he’d hoped.

As reported by Politico, the Army Corps of Engineers released water from two reservoirs in the Sierra Nevada — the Corps opened Terminus Dam at Lake Kaweah and Schafer Dam at Success Lake — though there wasn’t much warning ahead of time.

“Local water managers on the Kaweah and Tule rivers had to move equipment and alert farms about possible flooding with only an hour’s notice,” Kaweah River Water Master Victor Hernandez told the outlet, calling the situation “alarming and scary.”

The Corps said the water was released due to Trump’s executive order related to the California wildfires, though the two major blazes are now 100% contained.

 

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