Drought in the West A Photographic Essay     
Reno/Truckee Meadows
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Bucks Lake ↓ ↓ Whites, Thomas Creeks & Alexander Lake
Webber Lake Cold Stream/Sierraville Creek → Sierra Valley (Alfalfa) → Feather River (North Fork) → Lake Oroville Brown, Davis & Franktown Creeks
↘ ↗ ↓
Little Truckee River
Little Truckee River
Steamboat Creek ← Washoe Lake ← Ophir Creek ← Tahoe Meadows
Independence Lake → Independence Creek ↗ ↘
↓ Davis/Davies & Merrill Creeks Lake Tahoe ↓
↙ ↖ Rock Lake ← (Upper) Price Lake
Stampede Reservoir → Little Truckee River 3 → Boca Reservoir → Little Truckee River 4 → Truckee River ← Donner Creek ← Donner Lake
↖
Prosser Creek ← Prosser Dam

Prosser Dam: 4.2015

Prosser Dam creates a reservoir out of Prosser Creek which is triburary to the Truckee River.

The area has been owned by the Prosser family since Pioneer times. Water rights are maintained for the Truckee River watershed.


A lone fisherperson casts a line out as the Prosser Reservoir surface level sinks to near-bottom.
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The overflow channel leading to the Prosser Dam spillway from Prosser Reservoir.
 
Prosser Dam Spillway has been dry all winter, 2015.
 
Where the reservoir would spill into the overflow channel.
 
In normal years the unnamed channel near the top right carries water into Prosser Reservoir.
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