[californiadisasters] Neighbors Face Drought Conditions in E. Shasta Co. & Elsewhere

Neighbors face drought conditions in eastern Shasta County and elsewhere

• By Ryan Sabalow
• Redding Record-Searchlight
  
• Record-Searchlight
• Posted August 12, 2010 at 11:54 p.m.

With near constant rain and Lake Shasta filling to the brim, it might have been hard last winter and spring for Redding residents to believe that their neighbors to the north and east received very little rainfall.

"We're really in a drought," said Pat Oilar, a rancher in the McArthur area whose family also has property a few miles to the north in Modoc County.

Oilar's family members in Modoc are drilling a well in the hopes they can continue irrigating their land. A seasonal pond on their land is nearly dry, something that hasn't happened since 1991, he said.

The Oilars aren't alone.

The U.S. Drought Monitor at the University of Nebraska lists moderate drought conditions in eastern Shasta, northeastern Siskiyou, Lassen, Plumas and Modoc counties and a severe drought in the Klamath Basin in Southern Oregon.

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