And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Friday, September 16, 2022
Two pictures of Lake Oroville in California. Top picture is 2019, the bottom photo is last month.
Returning to it’s natural state? Man’s belief he can control nature and being taught otherwise… Of course it will be spun as devastating climate change 😂
Well it wouldn't have happen if they hadn't kept pumping more and more out of the lake. Global warming (if only it were true) would have increased rainfall and it would have take several more years before consumption exceeded supply! Human idiocy.
The photo is of the Enterprise Bridge, looking west towards Oroville. That's the road that goes to Feather Falls.
Regarding natural or mismanagement: Lake Oroville (Feather River watershed) is under the control of the California Department of Water Resources, the same nice people who brought you the Oroville Dam Spillway fiasco in 2017. The lake is currently at 36% of capacity, which is 64% of its historical average. 20 miles away, New Bullards Bar Reservoir (North Fork, Yuba River watershed), which is controlled by the Yuba County Water Agency, is currently at 67% of capacity, which is 103% of its historical average.
California water resources have been traditionally very poorly managed but what has happened over the past three years is criminal malfeasance on a massive scale. Oroville was at 98% of capacity and 118% of its historical average in June 2019 and nine out of twelve of the other major reservoirs in the state were at 92% capacity or better. What should have been a 7 year supply has been wasted. This is a carefully manufactured water emergency and the State Water Board should be in prison. The human cost alone demands it but the financial cost can't even be calculated yet.
Like some of the other comments, I wonder if this is a Lake Mead scenario. The same amount of water going in, but the demand on the outflow keeps increasing year after year.
Shasta is extremely low also and it covers a huge area. The charts show it is 138 feet below full; but when you think about how much area it covers you realize just how much water is missing. Bad water management wasting the water.
Returning to it’s natural state? Man’s belief he can control nature and being taught otherwise… Of course it will be spun as devastating climate change 😂
ReplyDeleteWell it wouldn't have happen if they hadn't kept pumping more and more out of the lake. Global warming (if only it were true) would have increased rainfall and it would have take several more years before consumption exceeded supply! Human idiocy.
ReplyDeleteThe photo is of the Enterprise Bridge, looking west towards Oroville. That's the road that goes to Feather Falls.
ReplyDeleteRegarding natural or mismanagement: Lake Oroville (Feather River watershed) is under the control of the California Department of Water Resources, the same nice people who brought you the Oroville Dam Spillway fiasco in 2017. The lake is currently at 36% of capacity, which is 64% of its historical average.
20 miles away, New Bullards Bar Reservoir (North Fork, Yuba River watershed), which is controlled by the Yuba County Water Agency, is currently at 67% of capacity, which is 103% of its historical average.
California water resources have been traditionally very poorly managed but what has happened over the past three years is criminal malfeasance on a massive scale. Oroville was at 98% of capacity and 118% of its historical average in June 2019 and nine out of twelve of the other major reservoirs in the state were at 92% capacity or better. What should have been a 7 year supply has been wasted. This is a carefully manufactured water emergency and the State Water Board should be in prison. The human cost alone demands it but the financial cost can't even be calculated yet.
DeleteIt's nature AND nurture!
ReplyDeleteLooks like a good opportunity to go hunting for free guns!
ReplyDeleteEver flush the toilet not realizing the water to the house had been turned off?
ReplyDeletefunny how everything is going wrong all at once...
ReplyDeleteLike some of the other comments, I wonder if this is a Lake Mead scenario. The same amount of water going in, but the demand on the outflow keeps increasing year after year.
ReplyDeletei assume now would be a good time to really fix the spillway if they havent pissed away the money yet
ReplyDeleteShasta is extremely low also and it covers a huge area. The charts show it is 138 feet below full; but when you think about how much area it covers you realize just how much water is missing. Bad water management wasting the water.
ReplyDeleteThere’s a boat launch under I5 on the north side that’s about 400’ long and it’s 100’ out of the water. Absolutely incredible.
DeleteWhy not ask Newsom why he ordered all the reservoirs drained last winter?
ReplyDeleteAnd why is nobody talking about THAT?
Someone expand on that please.
DeletePlease expand on this. As usual, the locals have the real skinny.
DeleteAll that water was needed as Pfizer 'vaccines'.
ReplyDeleteThis is how you get on the Christmas card list of the NorCal Association of Delta Smelt.
ReplyDeleteLC LtC
Is that a Polar Bear holding onto that bridge pier?
ReplyDeleteCalling it a lake is misleading, it's a reservoir.
ReplyDeletean artificial lake where water is collected and kept in quantity for use
DeleteFound an article that explains the situation.
ReplyDeletehttps://californiaglobe.com/articles/newsome-administration-wasted-so-much-water-oroville-just-ran-out/amp/
Jiggle the handle. The toilet is still running.
ReplyDeleteNow it's full again.
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