Posted on 02/05/2025 6:26:16 AM PST by cuz1961
SJV Water is an independent, . .nonprofit... news site covering water in the San Joaquin Valley...
.. Consistent with the direction in the Executive Order on Emergency Measures to Provide Water Resources in California, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is releasing water from Terminus Dam at Lake Kaweah and Schafer Dam at Success Lake to ensure California has water available to respond to the wildfires,” wrote Gene Pawlik, a supervising public affairs specialist in the Army Corps’ Washington, D.C. office.
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Tulare County water managers were perplexed and frustrated, noting both physical and legal barriers that make it ....virtually ...impossible for Tulare County river water to be used for southern California fires....
(Excerpt) Read more at fresnobee.com ...
Second, this isn’t “loose” water free for the taking....
...The releases are from excess water that downstream districts are allowed to hold in reservoirs to hedge against dry years.... ... A decision to take summer water from local farmers and dump it out of these reservoirs shows a complete lack of understanding of how the system works and sets a very dangerous precedent,” said Dan Vink, a longtime Tulare County water manager and principal partner at....
Six-33 Solutions...., a water and natural resource firm in Visalia......
“This decision was clearly made by someone with no understanding of the system or the impacts that come from knee-jerk political actions.”...
... For now, water managers are capturing flows in recharge basins, Eric Limas, General Manager for the Lower Tule River and Pixley irrigation districts, wrote in a text...
Because the old way of doing things worked so well. SMH
EC
Thought California was going to build a tunnel to run that water down. ?
Yes this might have been off target, but that’s life. Nobody’s perfect.
Sounds like the area being spoken about would make a great federal wildlife refuge and national park.
Wasn’t there an article posted that said this was controlled by a couple who are raking in big money? Follow the money and see where it leads.
Sacramento is flooding right now from rain. wtaf???
I literally do not believe a single word these bureaucrats spewed. I am to believe the Army Corp of Engineers just dumped water needlessly to other locations knowing it was somehow useless.
Nope not buying it.
As i recall just a few weeks ago CA papers were writing how Trump never opened up any waters sources, it was already done by some CA gov workers, now we have an article that yes indeed Trump did move water access.
They cannot even keep their lies straight anymore.
Good post. thanks
Fine....best of luck not getting federal funding.......boy, these people really don’t get it
The system doesn't seem to "work" very well as is.
Why can’t they use their expensive new high-speed rail to move the water to LA?
/s /s /s
Yeah, I don’t understand this order at all. It’s at best useless and likely counterproductive.
If these people say it is wrong:
“SJV Water is an independent, . .nonprofit... news site covering water in the San Joaquin Valley...”
I tend do discount them as corrupt, biased Leftists.
Democrat Mayor Bass ran her political career as an “entitled black princess”-——qualified for nothing. Warned of an impending inferno, she took off on a tax paid junket to Ghana to get her ego stroked, she was all smiles at a cocktail party as her constituents lost everything.
Bass’ biggest flop was her Los Angeles water and power czar—a latina “engineer” who got paid $750,000 tax dollars plus a mountain of perks. The latina airhead ignored a dry disconnected reservoir that could have provided 117 million gallons to help save Pacific Palisades.......and was oblivious to fire hydrants left broken and unusable.
Touted primarily as “the first Latina” to run such a vital agency cant matter much to the 18 million people who lost homes, possessions, livelihoods -——who figured these officials had deliverable water to protect them from the ever-present threat of an inferno.
The “hedge” is needed to be used now. Not saved for some imaginary future crisis.
Really not at all interested in the whining of political activists who created the mess that now has to be cleaned up
What is your expertise to be rendering an opinion?
Tunnels to move water isn't the answer, more reservoirs, desalination, and less illegals using up a resource in short supply in California, at least central, southern and inland.
I curious how is a Georgian an expert on CA water issues?
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