The search resumed Tuesday morning just downstream from the Rainbow Bridge in Folsom for a swimmer who jumped into the American River on Monday evening.
A 13-year-old boy jumped from a rock into the river at Negro Bar State Park and did not resurface, said Richard Preston, Folsom Lake superintendent.
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A pile of driftwood caught fire Sunday morning at Folsom Lake, the South Placer Fire District said.
Firefighters responded to the lake in Granite Bay during the early-morning hours and were able to extinguish the flames.
The cause of the fire is unknown.
Large piles of driftwood and debris have collected along the lake’s shore, the Folsom Lake State Park officials said.
“Pretty much is a ring completely around the lake,” park superintendent Richard Preston said Thursday. “Came down from the reservoirs up above and some of the debris that’s been in the river systems for a number of years through the droughts, and it pretty much all just flushed down this year with large storms in January and February.”
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Sacramento County park rangers have been able to clean up enough of the American River Parkway Trail that they expect to have at least 20 of the park’s 23 miles open this weekend.
The trail runs from Discovery Park, where the American River meets the Sacramento River, to the Nimbus Dam in Folsom.
The area that will remains closed will be the three mile stretch that runs through Discovery Park, which still remains under water. This stretch isn’t expected to reopen until late April or early May.
the Sunrise Recreation Area, the pedestrian bridge remains closed after water rose up and over the bridge in February damaging the railings. This was the highest it has been in 20 years.
“We decided to walk across the river and now we can’t, it’s honestly really annoying,” Andrew Lloyd said. Lloyd and a friend were forced to take the long way around on Sunrise Boulevard to reach Folsom.
Repairs aren’t expected to be finished on the bridge until late May.
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Five people were rescued from the American River in the Sacramento area within four hours Thursday night, the Sacramento Fire Department said.
Officials increased flows out of Folsom and Nimbus dams Thursday afternoon, increasing water levels on the American River.
Around 6:10 p.m., crews rescued a man who was trapped on an island under the Highway 160 overpass at Del Paso Boulevard. He was taken to the hospital to get treatment.
A second person was rescued from the water at Del Paso Boulevard, the fire department tweeted around 7:10 p.m.
By 8:15 p.m., two more people were rescued from another island in the American River. The people were near Cal Expo at Ethan Avenue.
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It’s no secret California has suffered from a historic drought that has affected many of the state’s largest lakes and waterways.
However, recent storms and the precipitation they left have underscored just how significant an impact the drought has had on the thirsty state.
Here in Sacramento, Folsom Lake’s water level saw a drastic transformation, increasing to more than 560,000 acre-feet from lower than 200,000 AF in 2015.
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Folsom Lake continues to rise with the weekend’s rains, despite water managers releasing even more water downstream.
FAST FACTS:
Folsom Lake stands at 422 feet.
The lake is up 13 feet since Sunday.
Releases at Nimbus Dam have doubled.
As of 5 a.m. Monday, Folsom Lake’s water level stood at 422 feet elevation, which is 13.5 feet higher than it was 5 hours earlier.
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Folsom Lake’s water level continues to rise as water releases are scheduled Thursday to increase downstream flows on the American River.
Between Wednesday morning and Thursday morning, the lake rose roughly five feet.
The amount of water flowing into the lake after days of rain and snow has surpassed 30,000 cubic feet per second. That is the greatest amount of water flowing into the lake since mid-December.
Meanwhile, the outflow, as of 6:30 a.m., stood at 4,622 cubic feet per second.
The lake level stood at 408 feet Thursday morning and was at 44 percent capacity. That’s compared to the same time last year when Folsom Lake stood at just 25 percent capacity.
Nimbus Dam operators are scheduled to almost quadruple the amount of water passing through the dam gates Thursday morning.
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Four fishermen were stranded after the gates of Nimbus Dam opened and increased the water flow around the island they were on.
The incident happened late Tuesday morning just below the Nimbus Dam on the American River.
Sacramento Metro Fire says some fisherman were on an island just below the dam gates. The gates were getting ready to open and when they did, the water flow increased to the point that the fishermen couldn’t make it back across.
A crew was launched to rescue the fishermen and bring them back safely. No one was injured.
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Runoff from the rainy weekend continues to spill into Northern California reservoirs — in some cases doubling the water stored in area lakes.
Folsom Lake picked up more than 100,000 acre-feet of water between noon on Saturday and noon on Sunday.
The lake also increased by more than a tenth of its capacity during the same 24-hour period.
The surge in water flowing from the north and south forks of the American River caused the lake’s level to rise more than 12 feet during that time.
But by Monday morning, Folsom Lake was 15 feet higher than it was Friday afternoon and 127 percent of normal capacity for this time of year.
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Folsom Lake level continues to rise.
Per the California Department of Water Resources, as of November 27, the lake stands at approximately 447,000 acre feet, about 3 times as much as last year at this time.
Although it is still 5% below the average for this time of year, note that usually we’re still losing water, with levels decreasing through late December. This year, the level has been growing since mid-October.
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