On Tuesday, a crew from Pacific Gas & Electric took to the skies in a helicopter to access a remote part of the Lassen Volcanic National Park for their snow survey. PG&E, which is dependent on the snow melt to help generate hydroelectricity around the state of California, conducted the survey to help predict just how much snow melt is expected in the coming months. … At the conclusion of the survey, PG&E says that crews measured 119 inches of water content at the measurement location in Lassen Volcanic National Park, which is 11 percent above average for this time of the year.

Other snowpack and water supply news:

• Enterprise-Record (Chico, Calif.): Snowpack levels trending above average in latest PG&E survey
• The San Fernando Valley Sun (San Fernando, Calif.): More than 200 acre-feet of runoff captured this year by San Fernando infiltration system
• inewsource (San Diego, Calif.): Sweetwater Authority transfers water from Loveland Reservoir
• CBS San Francisco: High water levels lead to extended activation of Lake Berryessa’s “glory hole” spillway
• KCRA (Sacramento, Calif.): April atmospheric river storm: When heavy rain, wind, snow could impact Northern California