Posted on 02/08/2014 8:22:52 AM PST by artichokegrower
Only 20,000??? I favor the number 20 quinzillion.
Where in California are you?
There are tons of statistics, current and historic, from the National Weather service.
My local source of data (hourly) is at the following web site. There are dozens of data sites in California.
BS - you don’t seem to have a grasp of the free enterprise/free market concept. Hang around FR, you’ll catch on.
No. The 300+ tons of contaminated water dumped into the ocean daily for the last 3 hears is staying in the top 200 ft. It is following the currents with little horizontal dispersion. Foam and spray off the ocean drives the contaminants up to 300 miles inland from the coast.
I agree the bullet train is stupid. Before the earthquake damaged Fukushima, I would have strongly supported desalinization with nuke power. San Onofre nearly joined Fukushima as the next big accident. It is “shutdown” for purposes of power generation. Still loaded with fuel and sitting on an active earthquake fault and on the coast. There is no money to properly decommission it. It is 20 miles from my current location.
Well, there was no reason to have shut down Rancho Seco in Sacramento. It was working just fine, but fell victim to those who view a nuclear plant as a bomb. San Onofre is an old plant, and was probably due for decommissioning. The idea that “there’s no money to properly decommission it,” is just SoCal Edison trying to escape their responsibility. Ratepayers got low-cost energy, they need to pony up now to close the facility. And we can thank Jimmah Cahta for squelching the fast breeder reactor way back when. That technology, as I came to understand it, was the way to “dispose of” the nuclear waste from the current generation fission plants. But we all know that Jimmah was a nuclear Navy guy, so he “must have been smarter” than the scientists of the time.
Carter is a jackass. His ill gotten "Peace Prize" will put a nail in the coffin of South Korea.
The Central Valley, technically, is a desert. It was through the hard working hands of farmers and engineers that tamed the water and turned the Valley into rich farm land. The farmers were promised that water. It is not Feinstein's to take away.
I understand it completely. I’m wracking my brain trying to figure out how it comes into play when dealing with taxpayer-funded infrastructure.
Thank you for the link it should prove invaluable
Im in San Anslemo in central Marin County
That pretty much makes my point. Turning a desert into farmland is fraught with all of the risks and uncertainties of anything that is done to mess with Mother Nature.
The task of turning a desert into rich farmland has taken place over a period of 150 years. The main element is a string of retention reservoirs/recreational lakes from the high Sierra down to the foothills where water is held during the wet times (avoiding wastefuland destructive flooding) and released during the dry times for use by the farmers. The system has worked well, and has fed this nation, until the last 10-15 years when government has interfered and has allowed those reservoirs to drain down, diverting the water to the ocean where it does no good.
Think of those lakes as a pearl necklace which is now broken, allowing the water to spill and be lost. Where government has gone wrong is failing to save water during the wet times for use in the dry times. I don’t think that any of them have read the Bible recently. Remember Pharaoh and his 7 fat years followed by 7 lean years?
I saw an article in a scientific journal a few years ago suggesting that the "drought" in much of the western U.S. wasn't really a drought at all. It may very well be that we're simply emerging from 50-60 years of unusually wet weather in the West, and that the "normal" condition out there is semi-arid to desert. If that's the case, then all of the water infrastructure designed in that period may be obsolete.
These “reservoirs” are recreational lakes that the State has deliberately drained to about 50% of their normal capacities. That water has been forced out to sea, instead of being diverted into the farm fields as intended and promised. The State has complete control over the use of the water. They just don’t control how much falls from the sky. They let go 800,000 acre feet last year, unfettered, supposedly to allow salmon to spawn upstream. Unfortunately, there is not enough water in the rivers to allow the salmon to travel upstream. An acre foot of water is enough water to cover one acre one foot deep. WASTE.
And THAT is the camel’s nose under the tent:
We provide roads, therefor WE can tell you what you can do on your property.
Also - you should research who came crying to whom. When the city demands water, creates a big water project to provide it, takes water from one region to give to another, and the farmers from where the water is being taken suffer in later droughts, or because someone discovered some snail or fish - that is the hand of YOUR Leviathan. But, of course, you and your central planners are so smart that nothing like that would ever happen - because you would plan much better than anyone has ever planned before...
Sorry for being confused. Are these natural bodies of water?
There are entire "towns" in Florida that have no real government at all. They're run by private companies that function just like a municipal government, charging residents fees for things like street maintenance, security services and fire protection, parks, garbage collection, etc. I'm guessing there's something unique about Florida state law that makes it an attractive place for this sort of thing, but I would think that you can do this in a lot of places if you're willing to start from scratch.
We provide roads, therefor WE can tell you what you can do on your property.
Alternatively, you can ask your government to provide the roads and then don't give it any authority over anything else. That's the way it works in most parts of the country, and you can see the impacts of it with chronic, recurring congestion in every major U.S. city.
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