Posted on 12/17/2012 11:03:53 AM PST by dirtboy
DENVER (KMOX) - The battle for more river water is about to get even more serious.
Along with the debate over whether to send more water down the Missouri River for navigation purposes, enter Colorado in the picture.
The Colorado River is low on water and, according to the New York Times, a plan by the Federal Bureau of Reclamation is about to be revealed that would take water from the Missouri River and send it into a 600 mile pipeline to the Colorado River.
It would provide the Colorado River Basin with 600,000 acre-feet of water each year. The plan reportedly calls for building a pipeline from the Missouri River to Denver along with a mammoth pumping station at Leavenworth, Kansas to send water to the mile-high city.
(Excerpt) Read more at stlouis.cbslocal.com ...
Kansas and Missouri did not vote for Obamugabe. Colorado DID.
See how that works, boys and girls?
The Columbia river should be diverted to the high plains, but that wouldn’t waste enough money or be dependent enough on future allocations to as effectively enslave the recipients.
And Washington and Oregon are dependable Dem states.
How about the dams on the Columbia river?
Dams on the Columbia primarily affect the more conservative parts of WA and OR. Dams on the Colorado affect a lot more liberals. Like the Hetch Hetchy reservoir that supplies San Francisco. They (SF) are able to meet their own needs and sell more to surrounding communities. The are also able to sell a significant amount of electricity to others.
There is an attempt to remove the H.H. reservoir, like the enviromentalist are screaming about the Columbia, and the libtards in SF are going crazy trying to prevent this from happening.
The water issue is never about what the libtards are stating as a cause. It is totally about power and the destruction of the U.S.
So, I am kind of being sarcastic. But what if it were an issue. Go after the libtards wather supply for LA, SF and Sacramento. The libtards were very successful in the Central Valley of CA so it can work.
If the water gets piped to the Colorado River then it can end up going all the way to Los Angeles. Why, oh why, do I smell the stench of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California all over this?
why not start the pipe line from one of the great lakes
did not know that...thanks for the info
I have understood that a lot of CO water goes down the CO River unused. That was why they planned the Twoforks damn that never happened thanks to evironazies. Would come in handy about now.
All of the water gets used. But these days Mexico gets some of it. Didn’t used to be that way.
In the end nothing but a marsh marks the place where the colorado runs into the gulf of california.
It does. Still, I believe some of what CO is entitled to is used by AZ and CA because CO has no way to store it.
till, I believe some of what CO is entitled to is used by AZ and CA because CO has no way to store it.
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The way the divy up the water is by an agreement that was made sometime in the 1930’s or 40’s. not sure which. but it was before the big cities in nevada became big. so nevada didn’t get much of a slice. for that matter neither did colorado because there wasn’t much population west of the front range. most of the water went to arizona and california. mexico has managed to negotiate a larger slice than they used to. maybe nevada and colorado have too —but I haven’t heard about it.
why not start the pipe line from one of the great lakes
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last I heard the great lakes states wouldn’t allow their water to be pumped. Its a shorter distance in any case from the missouri.
Don't know. I was mistaken about twoforks, it was to be on the Platt, not CO River.
Plus, this is supposed to be a Department of the Interior project. If something like this is afoot in this administration, betcha a box of Twinkies it is for some form of enviro cause.
I’m sure a dozen Indian tribes could also tie it up in court for at least a generation.
Really the age of great civil engineering projects is over in the US.
In fact if they could figure out a way to efficiently skim off the top ten feet during spring flood above the red river, they’d do everyone in the missippi basin a whole lot of good.
While I’m certainly no engineer, bringing water south from Montana, across Wyoming, and into Colorado, sure makes a whole lot more sense than pumping it from a thousand miles downstream.
I’m not sure what you are saying. If you are talking about the Red River of the North, that drains into Hudson’s bay.
In fact if they could figure out a way to efficiently skim off the top ten feet during spring flood above the red river, they’d do everyone in the missippi basin a whole lot of good.
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Where does the Red River begin?
The headwaters are the source of a stream/river. The Red River begins its total length of 1,360 miles in the Texas panhandle. The origins of the Red River are two forks (branches) in the Texas panhandle. The southern fork, Prairie Dog Town Fork, is formed in Randall County near Canyon, Texas. Prairie Dog Town Fork is formed from the confluence of Palo Duro Creek and Tierra Blanca Creek. The northern branch, North Fork, flows east entering Oklahoma. It then joins the southern branch at the Texas-Oklahoma border, northeast of Vernon, Texas. The Red River flows east, its south bank forming the border between Texas and Oklahoma and a portion of the border between Texas and Arkansas at the northeastern corner of Texas. The Red River flows into Arkansas and turns south at Fulton, Arkansas entering Louisiana near Ida. In Louisiana the Red River forms the boundary between Caddo and Bossier parishes and flows southeast, through Red River, Natchitoches, Rapides, and Avoyelles parishes to join a partial outflow from the Mississippi River into the Atchafalaya River.
Where does the Red River end?
The Red River ends in Louisiana where it empties into the Mississippi River and the Atchafalaya. More specifically, the Red River ends as water from an outflow channel from the Mississippi River joins the Red River and flows into the Atchafalaya River near Simmesport, Louisiana. Water flowing from the Mississippi River into this outflow is regulated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at the Old River Control Structure. The water from the Atchafalaya River flows into the Gulf of Mexico. Sediment deposited forms the Atchafalaya Delta.
http://www.lsus.edu/offices-and-services/community-outreach/red-river-watershed-management-institute/about-the-basin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_River_of_the_South
Are you drunk? You know there’s more than one Red River?
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