Folsom Lake is nearly doubling the amount of water it lets out through its dam as water officials look to make room for the above average Sierra snowpack and future storms.

The lake is currently at 116 percent of its historical average for this time of year and is 61 percent full.

Officials with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which manages Folsom Lake levels, worry too much water could cause a safety issue that could lead to flooding downriver.

In December, the lake reached an all-time low. Since then, it’s added more than four times as much water.

“We can’t hold onto all of it,” said Shane Hunt, a Bureau of Reclamation Public Affairs Officer. “We’re going to see more inflows come in than the reservoir can take, even if it doesn’t rain anymore, just from the snowpack. You can’t hold on to every drop.”

The outflow on Tuesday night increased from 1,750 to 3,000 cubic feet per second.

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