Why don’t the people in charge tell the public to put their garden hoses in the gutter and turn them on full blast for a day or so?
Every little bit helps.
“Why don’t the people in charge tell the public to put their garden hoses in the gutter and turn them on full blast for a day or so?”
Heh! They do tell us to conserve water during droughts - even water bans. It would be interesting to run the calculations. 200,000 people running hoses at 12 to 17 gallons per minute. 1 cubic foot is 14 gallons, so say 14 x 200,000 = 200,000 cubic feet per minute. Isn’t that more than what the spillway is dumping?
HOWEVER. All of that would be treated water, so the volume would be restricted by what the treatment plant can take in, the delivery pipes, etc. Hmm - I wonder if there is a bypass to the treatment plant, and just send untreated water to the homes for a few days?