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Donner Lake: 2.2015
California's Donner Lake is partially available to Nevada for drinking water. The lake has had pollution concerns in the past and its clarity and care is lamented for not being as looked-after as Lake Tahoe's.
Donner Lake is a natural reservoir with inflow from Donner Creek. The outflow channel continues on as Donner Creek where it joins Truckee River.
Private piers are yards away from water the lake's surface level.
California's Donner Lake is partially available to Nevada for drinking water. The lake has had pollution concerns in the past and its clarity and care is lamented for not being as looked-after as Lake Tahoe's.
Donner Lake is a natural reservoir with inflow from Donner Creek. The outflow channel continues on as Donner Creek where it joins Truckee River.
Private piers are yards away from water the lake's surface level.
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Donner Lake's distinctive and enlarging "bathtub ring" in the middle of Winter, 2015.
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Piers stand high above and yards back from the Donner Lake shore.
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Donner Lake's surface level has fallen yards below the average.
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Useless piers are left abandoned.
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Piers jut out from the bathtub ring revelaing Donner Lake's plummeting shoreline.
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Donner Creek flows into the natural reservoir of Donner Lake.
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Rust marks show seasonal surface height on inflow gates as Donner Creek enters Donner Lake.
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All content, including images © Billy Howard, 2015. —All Rights Reserved— High resolution versions available upon request to witness@diresituation.photos.