We could fill Lake Powell in less than a year with an aqueduct from Mississippi River

Desert Sun ^ | 6.30.2022 | Don Siefkes

[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.

[Candor7]

I posted this to your volcanoe causing global warming thread whichi was pulled because the headline was fake? Oh well. here is what I was going to post.

The religious zealots of the Green Church need to make sacrifices. I am sure they will step right up just like their types have done throughout history

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Run for your lives!

We are all religious environmental zealots!( snarc. sarc.)

We have to sacrifice two virgins to that volcano in order to save the world!

My nominations, something old, something new:

1) Greta Thunberg, she is so dedicated to volunteer

2) Nancy Pelosi, she has exceeded her shelf life and needs a lava tube

[Candor7]

Trump woould love it! I mean Libya had the Great Man MAde river project until Obama destroyed it and caused massive thirst and food shortages there. We could easily design the hydrology and put this in place .........now thats infrastructure, and whats more its green infratructure....as a bonus that would send the left into braiin lock if conservatives pulled this off. I think its an excellent suggestion.