Posted on 01/19/2023 12:39:41 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
The land of fruits and NUTS!
They used to have that. It was called Lake Tulare.
Remember that California is planning to destroy many hydro electric dam reservoirs and let all that water run into the ocean unused.
It had to cool off the boiling Pacific Ocean./s
They can use their Perrier to flush. Price for living in uninhabitable deserts.
“Whether we capture and store it is an entirely different question.”
No question about it, we won’t capture or store anything beyond our aged reservoir cspacity. The rest is going to flow down to the ocean. Unless it’s snow pack, which will melt later, some of which we will likely still capture and store. But our population has doubled in 40 years and our Reservoir capacity simply hasn’t. I think Los Vaqueros in Contra Costa County is the newest in the State, and it’s a couple of decades old. So, no, we aren’t going to capture and store anywhere near as much of this storm water as we need to.
“How do you store water on what is essentially a table top?”
While it’s flowing down the various regional rivers, you pump a much of it as you can up to reservoirs in the hills that ring the valley.
That is how Los Vaqueros reservoir in east Contra Costa County is filed. They can run the pumps full bore when the flow is high like it is right now. The greatest mitigating factor is there aren’t three dozen other reservoirs around in area hills equipped to do the same.
Conserve water involves that extremist part of speech.. part of conservative.
When are we going to figure out this is intentional?
These people aren’t stupid. FFS.
Hetchy Hetch
The deluge did one thing it washed away the excrement on the sidewalks and is killing the fish industry, don’t eat the oysters clams and bottom dwellers!
"Oh wow, like, don't forget the fLaKeS!" -Lola Granola
I'm sure Pollack read it on Twitter somewhere. This seems to be all that counts for journalism these days.
If you try hard enough I am sure you can work an anti-Trump angle into this story.
They built a two new ones in Los Angeles 5-7 years ago as I recall, but it was to replace the older one. No additional storage capacity net overall. I think the new one is underground or has a roof over it or something along those lines. My memory is fuzzy but a web search did confirm the construction - but just to replace the old one.
Other states need to start charging California more for water... Waste not, want not...
The weather Nazis never miss a chance to enhance their funds:
California faces catastrophic flood dangers — and a need to invest billions in protection!
The storms that have been battering California offer a glimpse of the catastrophic floods that scientists warn will come in the future and that the state is unprepared to endure.
Giant floods like those that inundated the Central Valley in 1861 and 1862 are part of California’s natural cycle, but the latest science shows that the coming megafloods, intensified by climate change, will be much bigger and more destructive than anything the state or the country has ever seen.
A new state flood protection plan for the Central Valley presents a stark picture of the dangers. It says catastrophic flooding would threaten millions of Californians, putting many areas underwater and causing death and destruction on an unprecedented scale. The damage could total as much as $1 trillion.
The plan, approved last month, calls for $25 billion to $30 billion in investments over the next 30 years in the Central Valley, and outlines recommendations that include strengthening levees and restoring natural floodplains along rivers.
This siege of rain has many of our reservoirs from which we get our water from, running over their dams.
Yet, only a few newswipes have shown these overflowing dams.
The internet has apparently showed so many overflowing dams,
the local semi news wipes are showing the overflowing dams.
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