The water is being released from Oroville Dam over the newly constructed spillway. The department first released water from the new spillway in April 2019; it hasn't been used since.
The water is being released from Oroville Dam over the newly constructed spillway. The department first released water from the new spillway in April 2019; it hasn't been used since.
Reagan as Gov was the last to build reservoirs and that was when the state was half the population.
ReplyDeleteNow they want to "restore" Hetch Hetchy.
Deletelets see: releasing water into the river to keep the river from flooding. yup.
ReplyDeleteThere is so much snow in the Feather River drainage that if there are no controlled releases the upcoming melt will fill and overflow Lake Oroville very quickly. Better to start early.
DeleteIn a couple months they'll be saying we need to "conserve" water because the reservoirs are empty. Shasta, New Melones and others are still way down so let's send more water to the ocean. These dams should all be built to handle "worse case scenarios," to let as much water out as is coming in.
ReplyDeleteShasta and New Melones are both controlled by FedGuv. Lake Oroville and New Bullards Bar are controlled by CA Department of Water Resources and Yuba County Water Agency* respectively and are both currently spilling. They'll both be completely full come Spring.
DeleteCalifornia politicians may have learned their lesson regarding our water supply. They claim to have, anyway. The federally controlled reservoirs are an entirely different matter. They answer to Washington D.C., which could care less about what's best for California.
*Yuba County Water Agency has always been an extremely well run and profitable agency. And Bullards Bar was one of the last big reservoirs built in California. It's just under a million acre feet, capacity
Just a reminder that I will give no f**ks when California whines about drought and water shortages this coming summer. Or anytime, for that matter. If the state is too stupid to create storage for when it has excess water, they don't deserve any sympathy.
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DeleteWas that the spillway that failed a few years back? It's either too wet or too dry out there in Mexifornia. I live up by the Great Lakes, 20% of the earth's fresh water flows by my front door. What me worry?
ReplyDeleteThey should pump the water over to Lake Mead. They are drying that lake up with all they pump to the LA area. Time to repay the debt.
ReplyDeleteSoCal is a semi-arid desert, even the injuns had the sense not to build permanent settlements there.
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