I do not see any reason why this would not work. Does anyone else? I would like to see the minnows protected as well as other fish. This seems to me to be a solution that could work for everyone. Has it been considered and if not how do we get it to the people who can do it?
I was just pontificating on how something like this *could* work; not that the idea I posited was even a good way to go comparatively. It just seemed more feasible to me at the time than the suggestion I originally responded to. My method is surely more grandiose and exotic, but in the long run it might be more maintenance free and cost effective (to borrow a beaten term from obama). Anyhow, if the enviros were so concerned; one would think that they would be willing to listen to reason and ideas, but my idea would probably have too much of a visual impact to be considered anyway. The price tag would be large initially and it would take more time, but at least with other ideas posited the water could flow pretty quickly in terms of time from inception to implementation while other more permanent solutions could be worked on at least.
If any consideration would be made in good faith to look at the impact of shutting the water off, the cost of that alone could easily be offset by several hundred million worth of engineering and construction expenses spent over a few years, especially considering all the porkulous money that is supposed to be available for “shovel ready jobs”.
Ahh, what do I know... supposedly I’m just a bitter clinging racist anyway...
I’d be happy to see something like this implemented too - who cares who gets the credit for it, just do the right thing for America as a whole and those suffering under a terminally bad decision.