Posted on 07/01/2022 6:22:47 AM PDT by libh8er
Citizens of Louisiana and Mississippi south of the Old River Control Structure don’t need all that water. All it does is cause flooding and massive tax expenditures to repair and strengthen dikes.
The best solution would be for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to build an aqueduct from the Old River Control Structure on the Mississippi to Lake Powell, fill it, and then send more water from there down the Colorado to fill lake Mead.
About 4.5 million/gals a second flow past that structure on the Mississippi. As mentioned, New Orleans has a problem with that much water anyway, so let’s divert 250,000 gallons/sec to Lake Powell, which currently has a shortage of 5.5 trillion gallons.
This would take 254 days to fill.
Lake Mead has a somewhat larger shortage, about 8 trillion gallons, but it could be filled in about 370 days at 250,000 gallons/sec.
Within a year and eight months of the aqueduct’s finish, both reservoirs would be filled and most of the Southwest’s water problems would be gone. We built a California aqueduct that saved Southern California and a crude oil pipeline across Alaska that were far more difficult than this proposal.
perhaps a trans continental pipeline to take water from flood zones to areas of severe drought.
what can the environMENTALists complain about that.
But we only have ten years until the oceans dry up!
Ted Danson told us 20 years ago!.............
Citizens of Louisiana and Mississippi south of the Old River Control Structure don’t need all that water.
Says who?
Once you start lowering the Mississippi, then you start restricting commerce and shipping through the entire Midwest. That would affect a lot more than "just" Louisiana and Mississippi.
But Democrats hate pipelines. This one wouldn’t spill oil but could interfere with migration of rodents, kill worms, disrupt indigenous plants...
The EIS would take so long that Powell and Mead would be dry before the first weld was in place on the pipe.
That makes too much sense - you’ll probably have to wait until President Trump is back in office.
The author has no clue about the engineering involved.
Who is going to pay for this pipe dream and how many trillions will it cost?
California is a money pit!
Only problem is it would take 10 years to build by the time the envioweanies are done with their law suits, environmental impact plans, construction, and delays. Mead has 24 months before Hoover stops generating and Vegas goes dry.
True, you wouldn’t want to take much water from the Mississippi during normal or low levels, but how often does the mississippi go to flood stage? Seems like every five years or so. You can turn on the pumps and siphon off some of the excess volume to transport to Lake Powell to raise it’s levels. The extra volume there could be preserved for years.
That’s just begging more people to move to CA to drink the water. Let CA build desalination plants, limit or remove illegals coming into the state to soak up the resources, let them conserve. Better yet, CA was a desert clime when it was found, let it be one again for all I care. Not one dime to save their sorry butts.
Seems to have merit.
But...the environmental impact studies, the feasibility studies, the bonds structure meetings, the financing committee decision processes...would take 254 years to complete.
AND, it would never get done because of "budget overruns" due to all the graft and corruption that would be rampant.
As a far simpler example...do a search on "Big Dig" aka Ted Williams Tunnel Project.
Yup. Seem like the southwest is trying to make their problems everyone else's. Overbuild in deserts, and this is what inevitably happens.
I’m not a greenie but Las Vegas is a fake town. Wasting water for a circus act. If they run out of water,it would force the Rats to move out of there and help Nevada get back to it’s hardier roots.
Tapping the Mississippi at the point mentioned shouldn’t lower it upstream.
Um, isn’t the elevation of Lake Powell higher than the Mississippi? That is a lot of pumping for 250,000 gallons a minute.
And, if the Mississippi flow were greatly reduced, how far up-river would brackish Gulf water flow? It could really alter things in the south Mississippi area. There would be lots of unintended consequences along the entire river.
FWIW——— Lake Powell is about 1500 miles from the Mississippi.
Because that would make common sense and foil obiden’s tyranny.
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