SAN DIEGO — Record rainstorms across the county have forced the City of San Diego to release hundreds of millions of gallons of water from Lake Hodges dam in recent weeks.
The city of San Diego is under a state order to keep the water level low in the lake — at about 30 percent of capacity — due to safety concerns over Lake Hodges dam. It’s more than 100 years old.
The city says it will take at least a decade to replace the dam, meaning the release of water will continue when large rainstorms roll in.
“I’ve seen them releasing tons of water at the dam,” a mountain biker at Lake Hodges told CBS 8. “It’s like just the waste of money. Taxpayers money too, because we got to pay for that.”
