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.
“The author has no clue about the engineering involved. “
True That
And think about this:
Texas has lots of Desert a whole lot closer to the Mississippi.
Dude, the lake is WEST of the continental divide.
I suggest NYC metro area. We have plenty of water here and could easily absorb another 20 million people in NY Metro.
Yep, Shouldn’t take over 206 yrs to do the enviromental studies.
This guy wants to run an aqueduct 1300 miles that run primarily LATERALLY (east west) and crosses the Rocky #$%&ing Mountains?! Dude. That’s the stupidest idea ever.
And don’t forget the annual cockroach migration from the west coast to DC.
Water = life. This would benefit vast barren lands, primarily in Nevada or Utah. California could be bypassed completely... but they need water too.
They’re finally considering refiring coal plants to avoid blackouts.
Libs flip flopping on pipelines now. lol
It would be easier to move the lake to the Mississippi River.
Elon Musk has a boring company.
Use a combination of covered canals ( to reduce evaporation loss) and tunnels. If the average construction rate can be targeted at 10 miles per week per construction set, with 4 construction sets working, then even with only 60% efficiency that’s 100 miles per month or 2-3 yrs to complete. OF course the whacko’s will try to tie it up in court for 30 yrs. Declare it a national emergency and fast track everything and Trump can have it done in his next term.
And it is a national emergency because...?
The man claimed the Rocky Mountains were in the way. The Rocky mountains end roughly at Santa Fe, NM. They don't enter into any such discussion. I never suggested the plan was feasible, though. And yes I've stood on the Continental Divide in NM several times.
This is total bull shit and a big promotion for the utopian dreams of American civil engineers and the commercial companies benefitting from “public projects”.
California uses 60% of the Colorado River water and that includes that it now uses 20% more than its allocation.
We do no need continent wide water channels to supply that much water to California, because California has the Pacific Ocean at its doorstep.
What needs to happen is for the most maximum increase in desalinization plants on the California coast, and for that plant building to continue until California needs zero water from the Colorado River.
A second phase of that development would desalinized water from the California coast pipelined to Arizona and Nevada, so they could rely less than they do now on the Colorado River.
That will leave states further from the coast to have more Colorado River water when they need to, and eventually will see the water levels in Lake Mead restored to historic levels.
from a previous post (perhaps helpful)
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4072914/posts?q=1&;page=51#78
Wait til we have a wet year and all will be back to Normal—There is no “Climate Change” there is no Global Warming.
If feasible not a bad idea. Which we go nowhere. We certainly don't need "pipeline" jobs, besides I'm sure it's bad for the fish.
This is such a great idea - and add some gators to the Rio Grande as well
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