Posted on 09/02/2023 1:19:59 PM PDT by dragnet2
Not where I live. Been raining every other day for months. And we don’t get our water from the Colorado river. We have multiple deep wells with a reported 100 year capacity even factoring in the population increases we’re now seeing. ☺
I’ve lived in areas with fridged long dark snowy winters and other regions of high heat and sweltering humidity. Not me. You can have it, no problem!
You bet, we’ve been in AZ for about 4.5 years now and this year every time a cloud comes over it starts raining! And it’s raining now...lol
These lower lakes on the Colorado drainage are the last to fill. Above Mead is Lake Powell which is at 230% of it Water Year in 2022. It is up 40 Feet from last year. That has taken place because the 34 lakes above it on the feeding drainages are now above 85% of capacity.
Now, if we have a good snow year this winter, we will really see the big lower lakes fill even more as we are going into the fall and the end of the ‘Water Year’ with the upper lakes already near capacity so the excess will all go to bringing up Powell and Mead.
Thatsa lotta H2OIn other news, water levels in Tuvalu have gone down by 2 inches. United Nations in panic.
By content, Lake Mead is 34.21% of Full Pool (25,877,000 af) The lake is 154 feet below full pool. Not good.
True but a also a lot of water runs off to the ocean in southern california. they don’t catch it as well as they do the water up north.
the hurricane increased lake meade by about 2 feet over a couple weeks. (or maybe it was higher inflows from lake powell.)
there was a big rain on saturday in Nevada and southwest utah that dropped a couple inches in places. that may add another foot to lake meade.
Yep, probably where I got that seed of wisdom.
Rush is greatly missed.
Wouldn’t surprise me what Gruesome Newsom said and the media never being called on it.
He is indeed missed.
Isn’t that amazing? I recall LA’s cement rivers during storms and the water was flowing like 30 mph, 25 feet deep, almost up to the freeway overpasses, all flowing right out to the ocean. Hundreds of billions of gallons of water just gone every time a storm occurred.
And by the time summer hit, those in government would be demanding everyone conserve water which everyone did, and then they’d turn around and jack up the water rates.
Total complete mismanagement of water resources.
fed release water to make sure the dams do not overflow, keep the level below the spillway.
you mean in LA proper down the la river in the ocean.
southern california has reservoirs, quite a few as a matter of fact. Orange county uses underground water.
yeah, I was primarily thinking about the LA River.
thought there might be others. but I guess not.
It’s still 150 feet below full. So IF things were to maintain this gain you’re talking close to 7 more years of that to get to full.
If Lake Mead serves as a reservoir for the area it's in, then this means an ABUNDANCE of WATER for EVERYONE in that area!
Is that not "good" or "positive?"
I think the two massive water holding reservoirs are Powell and Meade. Above them are 34 smaller reservoirs. They are at 85% +/-. It Powell and Meade could keep climbing and get back to full pool or close that would be great. However, the trend has not followed that and one good year does not mean a reversal to the ten year average trend.
CA wants more water from others and they don’t build reservoirs in their own state. Likewise, Nevada uses a lot of Meade and just keeps growing as does AZ.
Good and positive!☺
It’s funny though, the lake is up 23+ feet and some respond with, “Yeah but it’s not full”...lol
I get you, its hard to know at times. all the media coverage points to LA and SF as if they rep all of california.
Not necessarily true. One of the largest aquifers in the US is in the middle of DEATH VALLEY.
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