Posted on 11/05/2021 1:37:40 PM PDT by AFreeBird
I thought it was interesting in light of the water issues out west.
There are 1000s of tons of toxic metals and materials that have been deposited at the bottom of that lake from the Colorado rivers. Dry up the lake, and all of that blows around the region.
Peter Deneen does not rely on water from Lake Powell to survive. Peter Deneen is another eco-wacko with a lot of degrees but no sense.
Thanks for later reading research
I just drove through Page, where the dam is, and the museum is closed. Covid I guess. I have spent a week on Lake Powell and loved it. What do they think they will gain by draining. I have heard many theories but the water is there and can be used to help out the COlorado River through this drought. The drought will end in a year or so, as they come in waves. Texas was in a drought for 5 years for almost the whole state, and then one month of rains finised that off.
Or we could excavate it, load on trains, and landfill in California!
Since there is no man-made climate change, making anything better or worse, what is the case against the dam?
So how do they replace the 5 billion annual mega watts of electricity?
Where did the toxic metals come from? I’m not from around there, so I don’t know.
I try. We spend so much time with politics around here, it’s easy to forget all the other moving parts around us.
And I like interesting.
Buy from China on a long cable?
Well, if I read the article correctly, it’s actually hurting downstream Colorado River. Lake Powell is a reservoir for a reservoir (Mead). Which actually sounds a little screwed up to me.
That and you end up with two massive bodies of water that the desert air sucks up in addition to encouraging everyone else to suck up what’s left, which just exacerbates the situation. And California is the biggest suck for all all that water and they’re not even adjacent.
The mayor of Page actually sounds rather pragmatic and even optimistic in a way over the change in circumstances for his town.
That might clarify things a bit; just follow the money...
Stir it up and flush it down to LA.
Probably from mining operations in Colorado and Utah.
I don't know nearly enough about the subject to have a strong opinion on this in either direction, but I can state unequivocally that Lake Powell provides for some of the most beautiful vistas in the United States.
releasing all of the water in Lake Powell will do nothing to add water anywhere else. It stores the water behind Lake Powell, then it goes out later when needed to fill up lower down dams.
All the downstream dams like Mead,Davis, Lake Havasue and on down are low and filled with silt gathered at the north side of the dams..
Oldtimers up there have predicted a dam break for decades. Any dam breaking would be a mega tragedy. The whole Carl Hayden boon doggle has been an ecological disaster.
I rode over Hoover Damn on my way out to San Diego once. That’s the extent of my direct experiences with that watershed.
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