California knew the Dam was in bad condition and needed repairs but decided to allocate the funds elsewhere like magical trains that won't be built. I won't even get into the social services/sanctuary city debate.
It was all good though because we were in a drout and climate change is real and it was only going to get hotter and hotter until we dried up and it's the shame of our generation.
California knew the Dam was in bad condition and needed repairs but decided to allocate the funds elsewhere like magical trains that won't be built. I won't even get into the social services/sanctuary city debate.
It was all good though because we were in a drout and climate change is real and it was only going to get hotter and hotter until we dried up and it's the shame of our generation.
Negligence almost swallowed up 100k people.
This is pretty fucked up shit. Assuring the water supply should outweigh all of the other above mentioned bullshit. If Oroville collapses somehow a large piece of the state's water supply is FUBAR.
The environmental lobby in CA - most of whom live in the Bay Area - are some of the biggest hypocrites you'll find. They get to live where they do only because there fore fathers damned up half of Yosemite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O'Shaughnessy_Dam_(California) But they'll fight tooth and nail any efforts for the state to add more storage capacity; and they like to worry about some stupid, endangered crap minnow type fish in the San Joaquin river.
Play shell games with water levels...and you win stupid prizes.
The real messed up laws reside post Reclamation Act. The Department of Interior's attempt at "reclaiming the desert into a productive oasis" failed but hey...let's keep spraying Lake Tahoe/Truckee water on this fine NV soil for the next 150 years (among other places). Then DoD layed claim to this power (Army Corps), and now we have water rights owners that exceed current capacity by a 25% or more on the Sac, San Joaquin, Truckee, Colorado, Missouri, and all of the mid/upper Columbia tribs. But they own the paper "water rights"...so they take it. Even when the right itself is based on a shell game of shifting reservoir levels and covert transfers by the Federal and State Watermasters.
Same BS here in the Colorado and Missouri system where this IS my business.
Sincerely,
Fish Nerd and Water Resource Superiority Guy
P.S. Boobs...the only saving grace you have with NOT bypassing Portland should water be an issue is, BPA. It ain't the water. Energy commodities resold back to the grid is your only hope.
Play shell games with water levels...and you win stupid prizes.
The real messed up laws reside post Reclamation Act. The Department of Interior's attempt at "reclaiming the desert into a productive oasis" failed but hey...let's keep spraying Lake Tahoe/Truckee water on this fine NV soil for the next 150 years (among other places). Then DoD layed claim to this power (Army Corps), and now we have water rights owners that exceed current capacity by a 25% or more on the Sac, San Joaquin, Truckee, Colorado, Missouri, and all of the mid/upper Columbia tribs. But they own the paper "water rights"...so they take it. Even when the right itself is based on a shell game of shifting reservoir levels and covert transfers by the Federal and State Watermasters.
Same BS here in the Colorado and Missouri system where this IS my business.
Sincerely,
Fish Nerd and Water Resource Superiority Guy
P.S. Boobs...the only saving grace you have with NOT bypassing Portland should water be an issue is, BPA. It ain't the water. Energy commodities resold back to the grid is your only hope.
Who was the governor in 05 when it was brought up to fix?
The comment is apolitical. The dam damn issue was also brought up multiple times under Governor Moonbeam.
Historically the dam issue in CA has shown failures and successes by both parties. When CA stopped adding storage capacity and the state had half the population that it does at present, Reagan was governor; he viewed dam building as a "big government" boondoggle and he wasn't necessarily wrong at the time. Governor Moonbeam's dad, however, was a staunch supporter of the State Water Project of which Oroville is the lynchpin. This, of course, was back when there were TUFF liberals. Throughout our nation's history, many of our public works projects have been big government boondoggles, but they would never have been built otherwise and we should be glad we have them.
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It was all good though because we were in a drout and climate change is real and it was only going to get hotter and hotter until we dried up and it's the shame of our generation.
Negligence almost swallowed up 100k people.
The environmental lobby in CA - most of whom live in the Bay Area - are some of the biggest hypocrites you'll find. They get to live where they do only because there fore fathers damned up half of Yosemite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O'Shaughnessy_Dam_(California)
But they'll fight tooth and nail any efforts for the state to add more storage capacity; and they like to worry about some stupid, endangered crap minnow type fish in the San Joaquin river.
Now fuck off
Play shell games with water levels...and you win stupid prizes.
The real messed up laws reside post Reclamation Act. The Department of Interior's attempt at "reclaiming the desert into a productive oasis" failed but hey...let's keep spraying Lake Tahoe/Truckee water on this fine NV soil for the next 150 years (among other places). Then DoD layed claim to this power (Army Corps), and now we have water rights owners that exceed current capacity by a 25% or more on the Sac, San Joaquin, Truckee, Colorado, Missouri, and all of the mid/upper Columbia tribs. But they own the paper "water rights"...so they take it. Even when the right itself is based on a shell game of shifting reservoir levels and covert transfers by the Federal and State Watermasters.
Same BS here in the Colorado and Missouri system where this IS my business.
Sincerely,
Fish Nerd and Water Resource Superiority Guy
P.S. Boobs...the only saving grace you have with NOT bypassing Portland should water be an issue is, BPA. It ain't the water. Energy commodities resold back to the grid is your only hope.
If you can't tell that by how they didn't show up to work yesterday.... I can't help you!!!