Posted on 10/24/2021 7:19:00 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
What they did is enlarge some existing reservoirs and build some smaller projects like Strontia Springs Res. 6 miles above Chatfield Res (which is flood control) I was part of the group that stopped the idiotic and wasteful Two Forks Reservoir project on the South Platte. The flatlanders weren’t forced to pay their way and the western slope pays instead. Western slope rubes got taken by the flatlanders decades ago.
Also, in order to build reservoirs you first have to buy the water rights so you can store the water. The water rights left are so “junior” that they can’t be used in low water years because the senior rights use all the water first.
They LOVE the word “intersectional”. It’s “inclusive”.
One thing about Az though. They will actually deny the project if the developer cannot prove a hundred years of future water use that will not unreasonably impact the surrounding sources. This forces the engineers to also include such things as recycling systems for cooling water Etc. in their building plans.
Many many projects have been refused because they could not prove this requirement up front first.
You’re right. They use chosen words that work on their idiots.
Yup. You and I had a good laugh when Harry “the weasel” Reid’s buddy Rhodes, got hoisted from his Golden Valley scam project.
A few put money down on lots that were being offered and got took.
For starters, don't believe any projection from the government. They rely on politics, not data. This is particularly true for climate related items.
Second, the climate in the region discussed here is highly influenced by Pacific Ocean weather patterns. This means el Nino, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), and other oscillations are important. These change the weather cyclically. The PDO lasts 60-70 years. Dropping data from the '80s is a mistake (or malfeasance).
Easy solution. Just have the 2 million new illegals build new dams.
Dams are useless without water rights. And all the water rights left are “junior” to the older water rights. And even some of the senior rights can’t be filled these days.
I recall the days when Colorado (and most western states) were known as "Semi-Arid regions."
I guess the meaning of these old phrases has been lost.
Actually it was the Glen Canyon Dam at Lake Powell that had so much volume that year that 4x8 sheets of marine plywood were added to the top of the dam to provide more storage capacity so the dam wouldn’t be overtopped. Spillways had massive erosion which almost led to dam failure. IT WAS A REAL CLOSE CALL.
Read The Emerald Mile by Kevin Fedarko for a great story about running the Colorado River that year in a wooden dory. The story goes into detail on the near catastrophic failure of the dam.
Lol, yep... I loved that shutdown. I think it ended up costing him the company. That equipment sat there on the corner a loooong time before I think it finally got sold off to someone else. :)
Although that reg has cost Az a bit, I think it is a good reg considering the true desert situation. It shuts down the big guys before they drain everyone’s personal backyard wells. What happened there is he had to agree to re-drilling everyone’s wells if they went dry because of his new project.
Hey... Good to see you are still around... :)
Argh, you’re right of course. That’s what I get for posting in a hurry. Thank you!
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