The California water system is dependent on snow pack which is the real reservoir. Can??t fill the reservoirs before spring because of the ever present threat of a Pineapple Express overfilling them, a threat which is greater as climate change marches on. Less snow pack is an issue.
One idea is the Sites Reservoir, not a flood control reservoir so they can fill it whenever excess rain water is available.
Any solution which requires burning more fossil fuels will just exacerbate the ultimate problem.
Meanwhile killing the ecosystems to solve human problems is a bad idea too. Kind of like doing finish carpentry with an axe, fast but ugly. Certain segments of the population love to hate environmentalists but they are just trying to be smart about solving problems rather than making the problem much much worse with yet another short term fix.
The Defense Department has flagged climate change as the number one national security threat, perhaps we should listen to them.
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To help control flooding in Orange County, USACE built the Seven Oaks dam in San Bernardino county in a canyon northeast of Redlands/Highland/San Bernardino, completed in 2000. There was talk of using some of the water by the local water districts but what's there is too silty to make it viable. According to wikipedia, it's nowhere near capacity.
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Wendell worked on that project. He'd come home full of dirt and stories about climbing Dam walls to get the right angles, etc...
The big boss hand-picked boulders from the site to place around the newer buildings in Redlands. My dad was visiting when the trailers brought in some of them and we got to watch them being placed. It was pretty cool.
@paden-cash Currently the water goes the other way, west to east. ?ÿColorado has?ÿ24 major tunnels that move water from western Colorado to eastern Colorado under the Continental Divide.
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People don't realize the percentage of Colorado that lacks a noticeable population due to the absence of roads, for very good reasons.?ÿ Private water and sewer facilities are a foreign concept to most of the US population today.?ÿ And, electricity.?ÿ Operating off of diesel powered generators is another foreign concept.
Operating off of diesel powered generators is another foreign concept.
And an expensive one.
