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6/21/2025, 5:29:54 PM
>>40573503
Please anon. Explain how this happens. Crater Lake is 6,000 ft above sea level. It is 2,000 ft deep. Which means the bottom is 4,000 feet above sea level. I live in a house with a well that is close to sea level and isn't sitting on top of a bunch of volcanic rock. I had to drill about 30 feet down to hit water and also need a pump to get the water into my house. There is no fucking water table near Crater Lake. You have some water stored in vegetation, but that cycles out quickly and is still sourced from precipitation. Every source of water at that height is precipitation or runoff from precipitation. There is no fucking way, with a lake bottom sitting at 4,000 ft above sea level, that a lake can sustain itself when its only source of water is significantly reduced.
>Groundwater
There is no groundwater at 6,000 feet you absolute idiot. There is no water table beyond what is stored in vegetation and the thin layer of soil.
>Completely wrong (precipitation dropped off by half)
See picrel. From the high to low points, it went from 800 to 400 inches. On average, it dropped from about 600 inches to 400 inches. 70% of Crater Lake's annual precipitation is snow. So, even without considering a drop in rainfall, you are seeing a massive reduction in the primary water source for the lake with no corresponding drop in water level. This is impossible.
https://www.craterlakeinstitute.com/what-to-do/weather/
Please anon. Explain how this happens. Crater Lake is 6,000 ft above sea level. It is 2,000 ft deep. Which means the bottom is 4,000 feet above sea level. I live in a house with a well that is close to sea level and isn't sitting on top of a bunch of volcanic rock. I had to drill about 30 feet down to hit water and also need a pump to get the water into my house. There is no fucking water table near Crater Lake. You have some water stored in vegetation, but that cycles out quickly and is still sourced from precipitation. Every source of water at that height is precipitation or runoff from precipitation. There is no fucking way, with a lake bottom sitting at 4,000 ft above sea level, that a lake can sustain itself when its only source of water is significantly reduced.
>Groundwater
There is no groundwater at 6,000 feet you absolute idiot. There is no water table beyond what is stored in vegetation and the thin layer of soil.
>Completely wrong (precipitation dropped off by half)
See picrel. From the high to low points, it went from 800 to 400 inches. On average, it dropped from about 600 inches to 400 inches. 70% of Crater Lake's annual precipitation is snow. So, even without considering a drop in rainfall, you are seeing a massive reduction in the primary water source for the lake with no corresponding drop in water level. This is impossible.
https://www.craterlakeinstitute.com/what-to-do/weather/
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