Bump: Re: California Water _

On 5/7/2022 12:39 AM, Intelligent Party wrote:
> March 30, 2016: Lake Shasta, CA Surpasses 4 Million Acre-Feet For First Time in
> 1,376-Days:
> https://snowbrains.com/lake-shasta-ca-surpasses-4-million-acre-feet-for-first-time-in-1376-days/
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> 5 years later, now on verge of drought.  The dam could be raised 200 feet,
> allowing for 10 million acre feet storage.  Or damn the Eel or Klamath rivers,
> both of which run into the sea.  Or revive the potentially polluting peripheral
> canal.  Or all four.  The farmers utilize 80% of the State's water capacity, and
> the consumer utilize 20% of it.  The Federal Water project is for the farmers, and
> has runoff for the State consumer water project.  The Army Corps of Engineers
> builds the Federal Damns which last, like the Hoover Damn, and hold, unlike the
> State's, which though newer, required evacuation of 100,000 residents in recent
> years.
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> Current situation:
> "Shasta Lake is California's largest reservoir, capable of holding 4,552,000 acre
> feet of water.  Right now, it has 1,186,057 acre feet of water stored.  Breaking
> that down into percentages, the reservoir is at 26% capacity and 42% of average
> for this date."
> September 7, 2021
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> https://www.abc10.com/article/weather/california-drought/reservoir-levels-california/103-a3f855d0-98ba-4597-b334-b30086c50cb6#:~:text=Shasta%20Lake%20is%20California's%20largest,of%20average%20for%20this%20date.
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> California Needs The Klamath And the Eel Reservoirs Put In
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> Raising the Dam at Lake Shasta 200 feet instead of the previously proposed 20
> feet, will add 10 million acre feet of Water (raising total capacity to 14 million
> acre feet).
> Cite New York Times:
> https://www.nytimes.com/1979/01/18/archives/us-may-add-200-feet-to-a-coast-dam-cheaper-alternative.html
> :
> "Many possibilities for tapping more water from the rushing northern rivers are
> under consideration. An increasingly plausible one, engineers say, would be to add
> about 200 feet to the height of Shasta Dam.  That would triple its storage
> capacity to 14 million acre‐feet, more than one‐third of the state's annual
> consumption, and would increase the reservoir's annual yield of four million
> acre‐feet some 25 percent." in January 18, 1979
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> The Klamath Reservoir will add 15 million acre feet of water.
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> The Eel "Dos Rios" Reservoir will add 7.5 million acre feet of water.
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> That is 32.5 million acre feet of water between the three.
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> Lake Mead and Lake Powell are the two largest reservoirs in the United States.
> They each hold up to 25 million acre feet of water, but they are presently at 34%
> and 27% capacity, each with only 8.9 and 6.5 million acre feet of water, only 15.4
> million acre feet of water total between the two.
> https://www.usbr.gov/lc/region/g4000/weekly.pdf
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> There is a drought every decade or so in California.  Entire farms could die out.
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> The Federal Government needs to put in reservoirs, like the Hoover Dam. Farms are
> industry.  Industry needs 100% facilitation to work.  Farmers should not have to
> worry about water, farmers should be able to water all day in 101 degree weather.
> Water should be like sunlight.  That's the way production gets done.  It takes
> money to make money.  The Federal government water project is for farmers. The
> State water project is for drinking water.
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> The above capacity numbers are capacity only.  Someone should research how fast
> these reservoirs would fill up relative to each other, that is, *yield*, and see
> if the water *capacity* numbers are really the most pertinent or not.
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> Here is pertinent intelligence accumulated so far, on, ca.water:
> https://groups.google.com/g/ca.water/c/y5tkrEW4Gkk
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> The California Central Valley produces one-third of all produce grown in the
> United States.
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> Possible solutions that apparently aren't:
> 1. Oregon - the Columbia River makes the border of the two States of Washington
> and Oregon, and starts in British Columbia, and empties tons of fresh water into
> the Ocean.  All the rivers in Oregon flow South to North.  So unless you were
> going to float the water down the coast in big tubes, that's not liable to matter.
> 2. The Peripheral Canal, was rejected by the voters.  I think they thought it was
> going to cause pollution.
> 3. Turning Salt Water into Fresh Water.  Some governments such as the San Diego
> County Water Authority, in Carlsbad, are resorting to this:
> https://www.sdcwa.org/seawater-desalination , as is Australia.  Is this really a
> cost effective solution?  Cost effectiveness may be all it comes to.
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