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Thanks to the rapidly melting snowpack, Pine Flat Reservoir on the Kings River east of Fresno is now expected to exceed 100% of its capacity. But water managers aren’t too worried. Due in part to the extreme heat, estimates of the snowmelt flowing into the Pine Flat Lake were off by about 200,000 acre feet. As of Friday afternoon, the reservoir is just a few inches away from being completely full. But with more water coming in from the High Sierra, dam engineers have a backup plan. They can manipulate the spillway gate to create extra storage in an attempt to prevent uncontrolled releases from going over the spillway. Randy McFarland with the Kings River Water Association says that is called ‘surcharging’. “The reservoir and the dam were designed to take an additional 10-foot depth. Which is a lot of water because it would spread out back in the canyon. That has never happened. They have surcharged a little bit before but not that much,” McFarland says. McFarland says they expect
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