Posted on 12/17/2012 11:03:53 AM PST by dirtboy
DENVER (KMOX) - The battle for more river water is about to get even more serious.
Along with the debate over whether to send more water down the Missouri River for navigation purposes, enter Colorado in the picture.
The Colorado River is low on water and, according to the New York Times, a plan by the Federal Bureau of Reclamation is about to be revealed that would take water from the Missouri River and send it into a 600 mile pipeline to the Colorado River.
It would provide the Colorado River Basin with 600,000 acre-feet of water each year. The plan reportedly calls for building a pipeline from the Missouri River to Denver along with a mammoth pumping station at Leavenworth, Kansas to send water to the mile-high city.
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So Cal should get all of it’s water from desalination.
Plus, this is supposed to be a Department of the Interior project. If something like this is afoot in this administration, betcha a box of Twinkies it is for some form of enviro cause.
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not necessarily. if the green river basin oil shale is ever to be extracted they’re going to need a lot of water.
and yeah the right place to send the water is out to western Wyoming and over south pass.
a separate line should go to western Colorado to stop and stand and fill the ogalala aquifer
Plus, this is supposed to be a Department of the Interior project. If something like this is afoot in this administration, betcha a box of Twinkies it is for some form of enviro cause.
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not necessarily. if the green river basin oil shale is ever to be extracted they’re going to need a lot of water.
and yeah the right place to send the water is out to western Wyoming and over south pass.
a separate line should go to western Colorado to stop and stand and fill the ogalala aquifer
If you ever look out from a jet flying to LA across Arizona past Needles California and due west to LA, you’ll notice two things. The first is figures drawn in the desert by ancient Indians combined with tracks made by modern cars. The second big thing you’ll notice is that there is a blue ribbon of water that runs from the Colorado. That’s a canal built to send water to LA from the Colorado river for LA. They may be paying as much as $600@ acre foot for that water these days. I haven’t looked it up lately. LA does get a little desalinized water but precious little. That water is much more expensive.
If you ever look out from a jet flying to LA across Arizona past Needles California and due west to LA, you’ll notice two things. The first is figures drawn in the desert by ancient Indians combined with tracks made by modern cars. The second big thing you’ll notice is that there is a blue ribbon of water that runs from the Colorado. That’s a canal built to send water to LA from the Colorado river for LA. They may be paying as much as $600@ acre foot for that water these days. I haven’t looked it up lately. LA does get a little desalinized water but precious little. That water is much more expensive.
You know there’s more than one Red River?
Sure, there’s more than one Red River. But the one I was referring to runs through the Texas Panhandle. The reason I would not recommend pumping south of the Red River’s juncture with the Missippi is that the Missippi needs the dirt from the Red River to keep the Missippi delta stocked with new dirt. So it doesn’t erode away.
Western Colorado has no relationship to the Ogalala aquifer, which is chiefly located in Western Nebraska, Western Kansas, the Oklahoma panhandle and West Texas.
You want war with Washington and Oregon w/ many major military bases? Go for it. And the Columbia runs nowhere near Seattle.
What you say is completely logical. I just hope that is what is what they are doing.
“why not start the pipe line from one of the great lakes”
There are treaties with other states and Canada that detail how much water can be removed from the Great Lakes.
At the moment treaty name escapes me ( I am too lazy and dislike google too much) to google the treaty.
Just keep the cotton pickin’ hands off the Show Me State’s water. Get it from your own sources, implement water conservation in your own state.
a separate line should go to western Colorado to stop and stand and fill the ogalala aquifer
Western Colorado has no relationship to the Ogalala aquifer, which is chiefly located in Western Nebraska, Western Kansas, the Oklahoma panhandle and West Texas.
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Yes you are right. I meant to say eastern colorado. I just assume that the water would best percolate down from eastern colorado to Kansas et al but I could be wrong about that.
What you say is completely logical. I just hope that is what is what they are doing.
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ah well there’s the rub. likely that is not what they are doing. Rather, I’ve mentioned what they should be doing.
Just keep the cotton pickin’ hands off the Show Me State’s water. Get it from your own sources, implement water conservation in your own state.
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Actually there is a happy solution. From about March to June the Mississippi floods now and again. Those flood waters are not needed.
Just skimming off those flood waters (thereby keeping the mighty Mississippi within its banks) and sending the water west would kill two birds with one stone...
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