I would laugh my ass off. The brain dead San Francisco voters already approved a non-binding vote to tear down the Hetch Hetchy and restore the original canyon. I would laugh my ass off if they lost just 25% of their water delivery, watching them panic after that brain dead vote.
What a bunch of maroons. Couldn’t happen to a nicer group of commies.
Libs would be torn.
On the one hand, their communist paradise could go dry.
On the other hand, the Hetch Hetchy valley could return to its original state which the enviros would love. It resembled Yosemite before being damned.
CA really needs to follow the leadership of Israel and switch over to desalination plants.
We have used this company in the past for fixing large water pipe in place.
They use what is essentially a sock they soak in plastic resin and then press against the inside of the pipe with water pressure.
It then cures in place adhering to the inside of the pipe.
You lose a little bit of inside diameter but the resin usually has less friction to water flow so you don’t lose much flow. .
The size of the tunnel may be too large but I don’t see why the process could not be scaled up.
As far as these snarky urban sophisticates are concerned clean, fresh water is an entitlement that flows magically from water taps and drinking fountains. It's just something that's there, it's always been there and it always will be there.
They are completely and inexplicably unable to connect the concept of a dam, reservoir or pipeline to the stuff that flows out the tap and into showers and mixed drinks. To actually appreciate such things would be embarrassingly suburban and middle class, which is to say classless and clueless in their eyes and sophist world view.
Same with electricity.
The urban elite of the digital generation see electricity as something that comes out the plug in their wall. They just can't grasp the inherent and irrational disconnect between their hatred contempt for energy production and their unprecedented in human history, energy intensive lives governed by the lights and air conditioning, computers and telecommunications that they are completely dependent upon and which makes their day to day lives possible and tolerable.
I wouldn’t be surprised we’re seeing the absolute worst case scenario being depicted, because a lot of greenies want the Hetch Hetchy drained to make another Yosemite Valley.
Today in San Francisco, in the most advanced country on earth, they are coming close to undermining their water supply system.
Our great country is being turned into a backward, third world dictatorship.
Water comes from the faucet
Electricity comes from the wall socket
Gasoline comes from the pump
Sheesh. Who cares about some dumb pipe?
Subcontract it to Hamas, they know how to dig tunnels.
They have the whole Pacific Ocean. Let them drink salt water.
MY GOD!!!!!!!!!
If they lose their water what’s going to happen to the bath houses?
On second thought, they don’t really take showers in them anyway.....forget it.
Debate = who gets $$$
I don’t see a problem. I turn the thingy here and water comes out of the faucet. -concerned liberal
Wait! Wait! You’re telling me it is possible for San Franciscans to smell worse than they already do?
http://abclocal.go.com//story?section=news/assignment_7&id=8869303
Hetch Hetchy project uses freezing technique
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
“...”We’re actually about 83-percent finished with the tunneling. We got about 5,000 feet to go, which is a very exciting point. We can actually say, because of this project and the one’s we’ve been able to accomplish in the last year, that the system is seismically a lot stronger than it was even a year ago,” said Barry.
Work on the Hetch Hetchy seismic upgrade project is expected to be completed in March 2015.”
Hetch Hetchy is Yosemite’s smaller twin.
John Muir said this:
“Dam Hetch Hetchy?! As well dam for water-tanks the people’s cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.”