Lake Mead low water levels
June 11th, 2021 at 12:09:52 PM permalink | |
petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | If they built the intake down by Astoria at the coast, the pipe could just be laid underwater and save crossing the Siskiyou mountain range, or other expensive row. The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |
June 11th, 2021 at 12:12:05 PM permalink | |
missedhervee Member since: Apr 23, 2021 Threads: 96 Posts: 3092 | There is only one way I can posit to make it work, due to concerns about maintaining adequate water flow year-round for navigation and salmon protection. Build a massive pumping system to send water to holding reservoirs in the SW where feasible, but only pump water out of the Columbia during times of higher than normal water flow; basically skim off the excess. |
June 11th, 2021 at 1:15:34 PM permalink | |
odiousgambit Member since: Oct 28, 2012 Threads: 154 Posts: 5055 | that could be the problem generally with these ideas I'm Still Standing, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [it's an old guy chant for me] |
June 11th, 2021 at 1:24:13 PM permalink | |
missedhervee Member since: Apr 23, 2021 Threads: 96 Posts: 3092 | Forget asking the Pac NW states for permission: that's been tried before and went nowhere. No, it needs to be a Federal Project, akin to TVA, with no ability for the states to block it. |
June 11th, 2021 at 1:47:45 PM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18136 |
The southwest needs to solve their own water problem not try to drain water from other parts of the USA. CA needs to build desalination plants in a big way. The President is a fink. |
June 11th, 2021 at 3:32:34 PM permalink | |
missedhervee Member since: Apr 23, 2021 Threads: 96 Posts: 3092 | Why? We are awash with excess water here in the Pac NW, at least during times of high water, which is not really uncommon. Come and get it. |
June 11th, 2021 at 3:55:08 PM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18136 |
Because once they start draining it you will no longer have enough. The President is a fink. |
June 11th, 2021 at 4:12:34 PM permalink | |
missedhervee Member since: Apr 23, 2021 Threads: 96 Posts: 3092 | I'm not a hydrologist so "shooting from the hip" I have to question that conclusion. I propose drawing water from the Columbia and pumping it south ONLY during times of higher than necessary water flow. How could that possibly hurt? |
June 11th, 2021 at 4:47:23 PM permalink | |
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 188 Posts: 18633 |
For the people there where doubling their water bill would only be something to gripe about, that wouldn’t be a problem. Better than having housing or rent double. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
June 11th, 2021 at 5:09:18 PM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18136 |
It is not so much the residential as it is the agriculture in CA at least. The President is a fink. |