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.
Desalination plants in California coast pipe line problem solved.
You have to raise it 7500 feet to get it over the continental divide.
The water usage by people(whether citizens or illegals) is minimal in relation to the amount of water used to grow crops.
The problem is that some of these crops such as almonds and rice use a lot more water than other veggies and fruit.
These crops should not be grown in California. They use way too much water.
If California chooses to not build more desalinization plants as they have recently decided then they need to make the decision as to who gets the limited amount of water available.
This goes for AZ and NV too. IF you choose to move to and live in a desert there has to be a limit of the amount of water you can use. If you do not like it, move to western WA where it rains all the time.
Damn the scum from Los Angeles! MWD has all sorts of schemes to steal water from anyone who has it! Don’t any of you in other states ever let these criminals take some of your water because sooner than later they’ll try to steal all of it.
Obvious they just don’t want to do it - probably would cut of some of the Gov. subsidies or grants in their revenue rip offs.
I’ve said this for years. We have oil pipelines to move oil... we need water pipelines to move water. Move it from areas prone to flooding to areas prone to drought.
See the Aral Sea disaster (mentioned above) as an example.
Don’t be silly. It wouldn’t be a pipe a mile in diameter. It would be 10 pipes 500’ in diameter.
“ A canal from the Columbia River or Cascades in the rainy NorthWest to Las Vegas should be a consideration”
Exactly, and if you look at a map, it’s downhill all the way.
CAP (Central Arizona project) pumps 456 billion gallons per year 336 miles. About 2200 ft uphill! Through Rockies.
That’s just one of the existing aqueducts.
If you add all the CA and NV aqueducts, we probably have some thing similar already here.
It does not use pipes, but open country channel.
No problem with harmful leaks!
It is just artificial river, the water flows down by gravity and there are several major pumping station to get the water uphill.
We have the technology to make it! Just the will of the politicians!
It used about quarter of the Navajo power plant electricity to achieve that. However Navajo power plant has been shut down recently!
Demonictat overruns are at least 50% which have not been added in. Expect at least $50billion plus.
Think the Boston"Big Dig" on steroids.
Why would you do that? From New Orleans, follow I-10 west to Phoenix. From there to Page would be most of the elevation gain.
They should explore using water from the Pacific Northwest.
It started with the Spotted Owl to restrict logging. Once it worked on that, surrogates were employed to stop any other project that preservationists wanted to stop or at least slow up.
In the national forests they have stopped logging even after wild fires have blown through. If you can hold up the timber sale for a few years, the timber becomes almost worthless to the sawmills. Once the bark gets burned off the standing timber it is open to insect invasion. The wood can be riddled with bug holes. Decreasing its grade and return to the mill. It can also have more shake, splits and eventually decay. So, the longer the dead timber stands there after the fire, the less it is worth to the sawmills.
Who said equalizing? When the rivers are headed to overflow, turn on the pumps. Over time, it can help other areas that need the water and may save a home or two in the process.
Isn't 80% of Nevada federal property?
States with the most land owned by the federal government
#1. Nevada: 80.1% of land owned by the federal government
#2. Utah: 63.1% of land
#3. Idaho: 61.9% of land
OK- kill two birds with one stone -
Run the big water pipeline up the Rio Grande, and combine it with a border wall.
Ta-dah! Problem solved.
[ on a serious note, the problem with the internet is that really stupid ideas actually “appear” to have traction, when they’re just stupid ideas written by stupid inane persons ]
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