Calif. Residents Perplexed After Lake Mysteriously Goes Dry Overnight Leaving Thousands of Fish Dead

by John Brodgian | September 26, 2015 8:44 am

Well, this is highly unusual[1]. California residents woke up to find thousands of dead fish where a reservoir used to be…

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KMAX-TV reported that thousands of fish now lay dead in what used to be Mountain Meadows Reservoir, also known as Walker Lake.

“Everywhere that you see that’s wet, there was water,” resident Eddie Bauer told the news station.

Residents told KMAX that people were out fishing on the lake Saturday. They equated what happened to a bathtub being drained.

PG&E, which owns rights to the water, told news outlets that no one opened the dam and that the water simply ran out after after officials made the decision to stop repairing a valve that kept getting clogged.

However not everyone is buying what PG&E is selling. Watch more in the video below.