The key to Napa County’s unique spectacle of water management is attracting difficult-to-see people for weeks thanks to a series of atmospheric rivers that continue to smash Northern California.
Located about 80 miles north of San Francisco, the famous “Glory Hall” on Lake Berrissa experienced its first ripple effect years after the artificial reservoir level exceeded 440 feet, and the lake was maintained by the Naka-Lake Pipe. Use caused automatically from floods.
Technically known as the Morning Glory Hall Spillway, the drain has only been used 25 times in its nearly 70-year history, according to the Solano County Water Authority, which uses water from the reservoir.
“It started spilling at 6:15pm on February 4th. Another atmospheric river is hitting us on Thursday, so it’s very likely that the lake will continue to flow for several more weeks.” Solano County Water General Manager of Agency.
The attractive water management design known as passive spillway, was last used in 2019 and 2017. Before that, Lee said that it was inactive since 2005, a history exemplifying California’s increasingly dramatic dramatic shaking, exemplifying the wet and dry seasons amplified by humans. It’s there. – Causes of climate change.
When this occurs, it appears that there are huge holes in the lake. There, a ring of water is pulled inward. The top of the pipe is 72 feet wide and releases water 200 feet below.
“It’s definitely worth watching,” Lee said. “I was lucky to see it several times. …It’s not that common.”
Lee said he knows it’s in two other similar passive spillways in California, one on Trinity Lake in Trinity County, and the other on Whiskeytown Lake in Shasta County.
The New York Times first wrote about the fascinating drainage at Lake Verisa, interviewing Peter Kilks, who was hours after spillway opened.
“People are just taking photos and videos and are just adoring,” Kirks, editor of Lake Berrissa News, told the paper.
Lake Berrissa is owned and operated by the U.S. Burial Service, but it provides much to drink and irrigate Sonoma County water through Sonoma County water agency, Lee said.
The reservoir was created in the 1950s after federal officials built the Monticello Dam in Pata Creek, and has since provided water and hydropower to the Greater Bay Area, according to a visit to the Napa Valley. The dam was built in a canyon that was too narrow to support typical spillway spills, so authorities built a unique engineering function to allow for drainage – the morning glory hole.
The section of the lake with its glorious hole is marked by a buoy, but continues to attract curious spectators like gravity. Officials pay attention to the audience and the Lecter of the lake and urge them not to get close to the glory hole. A woman died in 1997 when she was sucked into a pipe.
“I want people to make their best decisions,” Lee said.
