Posted on 06/05/2021 11:52:08 AM PDT by eyeamok
“Are we having a dry year? Yes,” Diener says. “That is normal for us. Should we be having water shortages in the start of our second dry year? No. Our reservoirs were designed to provide a steady five year supply for all users, and were filled to the top in June 2019.”
(Excerpt) Read more at californiaglobe.com ...
https://californiaglobe.com/section-2/facing-dry-year-ca-state-water-board-is-draining-californias-folsom-lake-reservoir/
The State has been holding Folsom Lake artificially low at just under 400 feet for months now’
I bet if someone did an overlay of jury meandered counties and water allocation, there would be a correlation.
I’m convinced that areas of the US that have droughts and periodic floods need to build their own aquifers.
Essentially gigantic artificial caverns that are lined against leaks, somewhat near rivers that are prone to flooding. When floods happen, several different screens take out the big stuff, like trees, so most of what floods into the aquifer cavern is water and silt.
When the flood abates, the rest of the time is a slow process of silt settling and removal, over time making the water cleaner. What is left is a freshwater reservoir whose waters can be pumped out during times of drought.
At first there would only be a single aquifer cavern in a flood plain, but if it proved to work well, a single river might have half a dozen or more on either side, to provide fresh water even in an extended drought.
The then Northeast Utilities did this up by Turners Falls MA to capture the juice from their Millstones (Nuclear Power Plants) down on the Connecticut River when they had 3 of them running.
SNAFU....Cali style
Cut off the water flow to the LA Basin.
It’s not sustainable.
The tone of the article is that NO water should be released to ensure healthy rivers. It’s a common point of those who are new here, who think they have better uses.
Which is an absurd notion.
I was born and raised in the Big Valley and fished nearly all of them, especially the Tuolumne basin.
Us native Californians balk at completely killing these natural resources.
And wonder why farmers south of Fresno don’t shift to olives instead of almonds. After all, it’s a friggin’ desert.
Keep letting people in from the south and the Pacific, fools
Easier to build the wall and enforce it. Deport each and every illegal and their anchors. Deportation would save the infrastructure. There would be water for all US citizen Califorians.
Not just LA.
Everything south of Fresno is desert and we’ve (Norcal) been watering it like a lawn for 50 years.
The State of Jefferson’s southern border is the Tuolumne river basin. And we’d like to keep our water instead of sending it south to corporate almond orchards.
95% of those almonds are shipped out of CA, with half going overseas.
And they are killing Norcal rivers doing it.
Awww, that’s a shame.
the solution is to get silicon valley to develop desalination tech so that its cheaper/environmentally safe to desalinate seawater than to take water from the central valley and the california canal
Obviously Southern California should be recycling their water using the “toilet to Sippy cup” technology .... what could possibly go wrong when you have the latest technology run by unaccountable bureaucrats.
The Helms project does this also. During peak hours water flows from Courtright reservoir through a tunnel blasted through the mountain containing turbines to Wishon reservoir. Then at night when the demand is low unneeded power from Mt Diablo nuclear power plant pumps the water back uphill to Courtright. It was an engineering marvel.
Unfortunately the project was marred by cost overruns, lax safety regulations that led to numerous injuries and a fatal collapse. I had a friend who worked on the project whose hand was crushed, ending his carpentry career. He said you never knew when you went down in the tunnel if you were going to come out alive. Security was a joke, he said blasting caps were strewn everywhere. Of course word of that got out and there was a burglary of dynamite that was used in a bombing.
Environmentalistas revel at the thought of a return to the pristine wilderness California once was.. no dams, reservoirs, etc.
Only indigenous inhabitants and those pretending to be the same in their Teslas and solar powered homes would remain.
California used to make a lot of disaster movies.
Now we are all extras in one.
Environmentalistas revel at the thought of a return to the pristine wilderness California once was.. no dams, reservoirs, etc.
Only indigenous inhabitants and those pretending to be the same in their Teslas and solar powered homes would remain.
California used to make a lot of disaster movies.
Now we are all extras in one.
“the solution is to get silicon valley to develop desalination tech so that its cheaper/environmentally safe to desalinate seawater than to take water from the central valley and the california canal”
The San Joaquin valley from Fresno to Bakersfield needs several billion acre feet of water every year.
That’s a LOT of desalination waiting to be pumped over the coast range (2000-4000 ft elevation).
It should go back to desert scrub and grazing.
I remember thinking along the same lines years ago when viewing acres of strawberry crops on the edge of Los Angeles. The water wasn't coming from the nearby ocean but was flowing down from Northern California.
Conversely, the U.S. State Department has worked to shut down many domestic industries in favor of foreign production in order to give (at U.S. consumers' expense) those countries a marketable export. Modern U.S. production of arid crops would bankrupt entire countries.
In what way exactly? Cut down the almond trees, replow the ground pulling up those roots, then plant olive tree seedlings, sit back and wait?
Some varieties, such as Arbequina and Koroneiki might begin fruiting in about 3 years. Other cultivars do not make fruit until they are five to twelve years old. Most olive cultivars will not produce fruit without a pollinator tree of a different cultivar.
Meanwhile how does the farmer subsist while he waits?
SAVE The MINNOWS!!!
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