Posted on 06/06/2016 6:39:10 AM PDT by rktman
On Friday, May 27, the prospective Republican candidate for president Donald Trump went to the city of Fresno, the capital of Californias farming community, and declared: there is no drought!
This seemingly brash statement was met with ridicule and scorn across the blogosphere -- how could anyone make such a so-called stupid statement when everyone knows that California has experienced a historically high dry spell since 2013? But was Trump right? Arguably yes. Heres why.
Historically, California has a mega Wet Year once about every ten years with mini Wet Years in between. So four out of five years, or as much as eight out of every ten years, are Dry Years where reservoirs arent filling up enough and groundwater basins arent being recharged enough, except by the runoff from farmers fields and by recycling in urban areas. The mega Wet Years are those when California refills its reservoirs and groundwater basins to be drawn down over the next five or ten years depending on the rainfall and snowfall cycle. It is normal for reservoir levels to be dropping and for groundwater basins to be overdrafted until they are replenished by a deluge and floods.
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I think the long term history does support that contention. The drought in CA comes and goes over time.
While 2015 was bad, the CA State Govt. figures now show that the Sierra reservoirs are now essentially back to their historic levels.
http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cdecapp/resapp/getResGraphsMain.action
You can also note that the population of CA has gone up 50% since the last major drought.
I remember that at the end of the 77/78 drought the Office of Drought Management simply changed it's name to Office of Flood Management...:^)
As far as I’m aware, Colorado supplies water to 19 states while Colorado itself suffers from lack of water. Talk about bad negotiation deals, Colorado can’t even hold back water when in drought. The water goes down stream so Houston canflush its toilets!
Houston is practically a swamp, why would they need water from Colorado?
bkmk
I think he is confusing the rivers. There is a Colorado River that originates in Colorado and drains into the Gulf of California.
But, there is also a Colorado River that originates in Lubbock, and drains into Matagorda Bay. However, that's south of Houston, about halfway to Corpus Christi.
The Rio Grande originates in Colorado and drains into the Gulf of Mexico, but that's the border between Texas and Mexico.
Unfortunately, the elected criminals, incredible as it may sound, are DUMBER!!
The deficit welfare state spending is in competition with the Feds. Except the fools haven't realized that THEY can't just print money.
How then, genius, do you explain the great flood of 1860?
That happened before the network of dams and reservoirs were built to even out the dry years.
Which your 'Bugs and Bunny' buddies demolished a couple of decades ago.
Incidentally, the Ocean does not need the water to keep the fish alive. But the valley streams and rivers sure do; that's what the function of the dozens of dams no longer there was, to keep the streams flowing. Most of the junk fish and worms and reptiles and frogs etc., in the valley have died.
And do you even have a clue about just how many damns and reservoirs have been "demolished"? I think you don't.
Do you know if CA has increased, or decreased reservoir capacity? Probably not.
Yes.
Yes.
Have fun refuting my answers.
I don’t know enough about the situation to comment.
The dry spell started in 2012 through 2016 and that is about normal. But we’re not talking about heat we’re talking about water supply, most specifically supply of imported water from reservoirs (not groundwater). And that has been abnormal because planners were running a 2 million acre foot water storage deficit for the past few years.
I worked on this dam. It is not a capture dam, it is a storage dam only and depends on capture dams in northern california and the colorado river. Other dams built since 1975 are flood control dams. Diamond Valley Lake gives flexibility and reliability but not a new water source. Also the water is stored above ground so lots of evaporation losses.
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