Posted on 01/09/2025 12:22:29 AM PST by grundle
Environmental rules designed to protect imperiled fish in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta have ignited anger among a group of bipartisan lawmakers, who say too much of California’s stormwater is being washed out to sea instead of being pumped to reservoirs and aqueducts.
In a series of strongly worded letters, nearly a dozen legislators — many from drought-starved agriculture regions of the Central Valley —have implored state and federal officials to relax environmental pumping restrictions that are limiting the amount of water captured from the delta.
“When Mother Nature blesses us with rain, we need to save the water, instead of dumping it into the ocean,” Assemblymember Vince Fong (R-Bakersfield) wrote in a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Since the beginning of January, a series of atmospheric rivers has disgorged trillions of gallons of much-needed moisture across drought-stricken California, but only a small fraction of that water has so far made it into storage. In the delta — the heart of the state’s vast water system — nearly 95% of incoming water has flowed into the Pacific Ocean, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
The calls by lawmakers have reignited a long-simmering debate over where — and to whom — the state’s precious water supplies should go.
“With so much excess water in the system, there is no reason that exports south of the Delta cannot be increased,” read another letter that State Sen. Melissa Hurtado (D-Sanger) and Assemblymember Jasmeet Bains (D-Bakersfield) addressed to Newsom.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Gov. Newsom passes the buck to ‘local folks’ when asked about hydrants running out of water during Pacific Palisades fire
Rain waters used to be trapped to the reservoirs but instead let being flow in to the LA river to the ocean.
Water managed by the same idiots who skipped out repairing the Oroville damn because they said there will never be enough water to fill it ever again because of “global warming.”
Governor Newsom Under Fire for putting green policies over endangered taxpayers.
According to the FOX Forecast Center, the heavy storms plaguing California since late December of 2022 brought an estimated 32 trillion gallons of rainwater to the state.
Information from the U.S. Geological Survey suggests that this could supply the state’s agricultural, industrial, and residential needs for at least a decade if it were stored in reservoirs.
But only about 5 to 6 percent of the rainwater was captured, with about 95 percent getting flushed out to sea instead.
This is because of Newsome’s crazy environmental restrictions to protect endangered Delta smelt.........a fish species in California’s Central Valley.
LA officials say they do not have enough firefighters…
but they TERMINATED firefighters for not taking a COVID vax
X ^ | Jan 8, 2025 | End Wokeness
Posted on 1/8/2025, 11:18:53 PM by george76
The California Coastal Commission is responsible for these decisions. They are empowered by the governor.
Republicans need to hit this hard. Now. Nonstop.
Democrat drones are hard to de-program.
Even as I write this, some lefty Californian who just lost their home is engaged in the usual process:
Fire- climate change- Trump’s fault-therefore vote Newsom.
Impressively long list!
And only one or two were removed for safety reasons.
Moreover, they are draining Hoover dam by taking too much water out of it, instead using CA own water.
If you think the California voters are going to wise up to this you’re sadly mistaken.
*They're now calling it The Legacy Media and The Climate Crisis
As a result an ACLU affiliate went to court to prevent this flagrant violation of the first amendment from continuing, incurred by attributing volitional will ("blesses") and powers to "Mother Nature" as if to a deity. The offended party stated that "any official expression of dependence upon, and gratitude to any Supreme being is forbidden", thereby effectively conveying that atheism is the official faith of the government.
Yes, drought and flooding.
They go together and they are both alleviated the same way - building dams!
The Climate Crisis
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Somebody should teach these people, that we cannot change the climate!
Even if climate causes some problems, we should adjust to it, not fight it!
It boils down to them realizing their own stupidity caught up to them because it’s actually affected “them” unlike the homelessness, crime etc.
Crime will go up again now with all the illegal garners and landscapers out of work.
Democrats can only make problems they can’t fix anything.
Voting has consequences!
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