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.
They’re gonna need a bigger lift station. 🙂
I hear President Sam Kenison screaming it now.....YOU LIVE IN A DESSERT ! MOVE! LOL!
Maybe the desert people could move where the water is?
why would they want to fill it with mud?
I remember visiting Disneyland in Anaheim in the early 1960s when we came back from overseas. My dad had just bought a new car and picked it up in CA and he took us to Disneyland and then we drove across country.
I’ve also been to CA multiple times since then. Each time worse and worse. The last time in LA I had to stay in a hotel near the airport (one that was very nice). No one that I could determine while I was there spoke English with any degree of what I’d say was necessary to be able to pass the once-required English abilities....
But both of these are projects that could only be completed by some future CCP Occupation Government.
Seems really simple to me.
All the back east progressives that moved to my California
desert and ruined it, go back to where you came from and we would not have a water problem in CA, AZ, NV, and OR.
I escaped CA in 1979 and every place I’ve lived since then gets at least 70 inches of precipitation per year.
I presently live on catchment water.
And how many times per week would eco-terrorists sabotage the pipeline on behalf of "Mudder Erf" (if it were even able to get past the environmental impact statements necessary to build it)?
And take 50 years and likely a trillion dollars to get it there.
Maybe they could simply build more reservoirs in the southwest?
Just building the aqueduct would take decades with all kinds of regulations guaranteed to impede, if not kill, the project.
We lived a couple years in the early 50s in Westchester by the LAX airport. My parents could not stand it even then and we moved back to upstate New York.
Maybe no Rockies, but there are a couple (at least) Indian Reservations in the way. Navajo, Hopi (If they go that far south), etc. There would definitely be added costs in there for going across those lands—if it was allowed.
10 years to build by the time the envioweanies are done
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You kind of sound like the envirowenies.
They always opposed oil on Alaska wildlife refuge, because it would not address the current crisis.
If they build it anyway we could have the oil for a long time anyway!
BTW, there are temporally solution which would give us enough water to survive those ten years.
Like they could drain Lake Mead and Powell all the way down. If new water was on its way!
Since we are overpopulated, just end all immigration, enjoy our low birth rate and start focusing on conservation and American quality of life issues and modernization of infrastructure.
Rainfall to fill those reservoirs would be nice.
maybe no more illegals?...maybe no more pools in every other yard....maybe fewer golf courses and hot tubs and lavish lawns....
I just don't see why people from one area should bail out people from another area?
the whole West is dry....but nobody cares about getting water for the middle of Montana or Idaho.....
its vegas and southern california with all the big $$$$
and who says Louisiana doesn't want or need their water?
Twenty some years ago I worked on a project for the pump portions of a cost estimate to build a canal from the Columbia River to Lake Shasta. Same kind of plan as this one. eastern Oregon is relatively flat compared to western Oregon and the project is feasible, with the required pump stations all being well within technical capabilities. Oregon leftists nixed the idea.
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