Posted on 02/25/2020 5:30:49 PM PST by BenLurkin
Yeah, a hundred years ago.
Shasta can be safely raised.
“Hasn’t happened yet.”
Northern bridge on I-5 across Lake Shasta has been raised.
It's working in China.
built in 1950 between San Jose and the community of Morgan Hill,”
The area would have been very rural in 1950. Not much worry about houses and people below it then.
Much different now.
Dams are a real hazard in earthquakes. The last thing you need when you have an earthquake, fires, blocked roads, and the rest of the mess from a big one is to also have flooding.
Anderson Dam has been an issue for 40 years. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Of course if people/planners were smart, they wouldn’t build in a flood plain. I know, not always possible, but still...
It’s different in California. It’s not really a floodplain until they put the dam there. There isn’t normally enough water even in a heavy rain to flood those areas - except when a reservoir collapses.
I lived in the South bay area for 20 years. The Morgan Hill area and the valley along Coyote Creek between Gilroy and San Jose is a flood plain. It is a 50 year flood plain if I recall, but a flood plain none-the-less. CA has mismanaged everything. They dont allow new home construction in the mountains east of Coyote Valley, but they allow any and all construction in the valley along the creek. Build on farmland, but don’t build on state (Don) owned wilderness. Idiots.
Okay, thank you.
It’s a good thing that San FranSicko doesn’t allow street and sidewalk cleaning to eliminate the heaps of festering human excrement because it’s racist to do so. As a result, they need much less water.
I might have jumped the gun on that one, if in fact the dam is being drained in compliance with what President Trump wants.
But I will not lower my vigilance against the deep state.
You have that much faith in California government?
A dam on or near an earthquake fault line is not a good idea.
NONE WHATSOEVER.
ZERO.
My faith in government extends to a belief that it will do everything it can to destroy useful California citizens and replace them with malleable serfs.
I guess that’s my point. Yes, Shasta can be safely raised. But will California raise Shasta safely? I doubt it.
The Oroville spillway repair went reasonably well.
I was involved in that.
Shasta should be raised. It can be done - even allowing for CA shenanigans...
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