California's New $4BN Mega Reservoir
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- Опубликовано: 5 июн 2024
- California is in the middle of a major drought. On top of that they regularly face floods. In this video, we’ll look at this strange situation, and the multi-billion-dollar mega dam which the state will use to fix it. For more skyscraper & megaproject content make sure to subscribe to Top Luxury!
0:00 California's New $4BN Mega Reservoir
0:34 Water in California
2:25 Can they do anything about it?
4:06 Stage 1
4:50 Stage 2 canceled
6:15 The Sites Reservoir
7:34 How will it be built?
9:55 Are there any drawbacks?
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What do you think, should the new mega reservoir be built? 🌊
Yes Might Be Build Soon
Why make this so Expensive? About 80mi away you got the Keswick Dam. Just pipe it down to Sites Dam, no pumps are needed. You save an enormous amount off energy!!!!
Install some floating Solar panels to!
@@larsfridtjofnrheim1638 I think they want to ensure there is a guaranteed volume of water per square mile area.
@@ten-tonnetongue It will help, but, it is not a permanent fix. Like moving water from the Columbia.
As a Dutch person, it seems to me that California might be better served with thousands of small local projects, that let the land soak up the water when it rains. A huge basin is great, but it doesn't solve the underlying issue. Create places where the water stays in the soil, in stead of evaporating. In the Netherlands, we have tiny little streams everywhere, that keep the ground moist so trees and bushes will grow, their roots hold even more water, etc. In California, there seems to be a lot of water evaporating, due to the dry conditions. If you protect the soil, water doesn't evaporate so quickly. Obviously, it's not the intention to turn California into a second Netherlands, lol! But maybe solving the problem at it's core in stead of the symptoms might be a better course of action.
I think we in the states could take a lot of notes from y’all across the pond. I’m not sure if the Netherlands is the country with the giant wall that blocks off a sea but I think it is a very interesting idea for places like where I live in Houston. Hurricanes are not just wind damage and rain. Sometimes the storm surge does enough damage and also compounds the problem of rain draining back into the ocean.
We do that in some areas , particularly in the Sacramento valley areas and overflow causeway areas around Sacramento
I've been saying this for years most of our water is pumped from the ground
Some people have advocated, drilling dry wells into the water table in seasonal stream beds to absorb water during times of high rainfall
Weve had a number of groundwater recharge programs for awhile now. We use agricultural areas and crops that are resistant to damage from flooding. However theres a danger from nitrates from fertilizer getting in there. To answer your question, we are on it.
I live in northern California. Marysville area. The sites reservoir is a bad idea. A better idea is restoration of Tulare lake. They keep it drained to use it as farm Land's. The lake was the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi and considered the Great lake of the West. They need to restore the lake and do to subsidence of the land because the aquaphor has been drained. The lake would be deeper than it's historical past. The Tulare lake reappears from time to time and is currently filling up currently on it's own. It only 10 Miles from the California aqueduct system which actually could be used to supply the water the state needs. They can also dredge the lake to make it deeper in the future and it wouldn't cost 4 billion dollars to restore.
Tulare Lake at the deepest would only be about 30 feet deep. Get Los Angeles, the scumbag thieves they are, to fill up Owens Lake back to the levels it was before the Aqueduct was built in the 1910s.
Exactly!! This project is kinda dumb and is the same kind of stupidity that got us in this mess..
Well you live in North Cal so thats why that laker would ruin the farming which is the bread basket of world its the reason California is a powerhouse the cities need to be part of a bew state thats the problem they contribute nothing but ridiculous regulations and make all the central valley voting obsolete we live different lifes they need to be seperate
@@jacobonline6923 They don't have to restore all of the lake's historic size. Most of the plants planted there are cotton anyway.
Do both
Our biggest issue is that our aquifers are dangerously depleted. The problem is that where a lot of the water floods in the central valley, we have a very hard clay soil, and the water does not soak into the aquifers very well. Storage will only get us so far, but we *need* to find a way to get our aquifers refilled.
Infiltration/recharge basins? Yeah. We do need them.
The problem is whether it's cheaper to catch, infiltrate, and re-pump water compared to just storing it on the surface.
The advantages of these huge storage facilities is that per gallon of storage, they are incredibly cheap. Infiltration basins would have to be built everywhere around the state, which makes the scalability limited.
I do think something like implementing recharge requirements into building codes might be a good idea, but the areas where the worst aquifer depletion happens are usually farmland, and could use surface water if it was available.
The biggest issue california has its overpopulated. way over populated. you have 3 or 5 illeagle families living in a 2 room pickers shack. multi million dollar homes who could care less as long as the lawn looks good for the neighbors. hoas that are way out of control and a general population to self important to do what is nessary to solve the real problems. you have a better chance of asking the 15 million people that need to not be there to give up their houses all there money and pack up the car and leave. Are you willing to just leave? that's what is necessary to solve the water issue. you and 15 million others. just drop all you have and drive away. buldoze the houses and rip out the water lines. If you build bigger and more infersturcture to solve the issue it will never be enough for the population at hand now. more storage is not the solution exodus is.
Amen brother. Dams are a 19th and 20th century band-aid for our real problems. You can only reapply a band-aid so much before you have to let the wound heal.
@@RC-fp1tlask the people who died in floods and drought caused famines centuries ago. I’m sure they wish they had dams to regulate flow. 🤡
Agreed 100%. Actually the necessary reservoir already exists. The underground water table. Slow the flow of the Sacramento River to allow the water to spread out. It will soak into the ground. There it can be stored in the water table. For free. Without evaporation. Without $4B in construction costs. How to slow the flow? A few man-made structures may help. But most/all of the work can be done by free labor. Just reintroduce beaver along the Sacramento River. Beaver will relentlessly build small dams. Improve fish habitat. Recharge the water table. Help tress and shrubs grow. Elegantly simply. And affordable. The Sites Reservoir is a farce, and merely a gift to the construction industry which is already rife with greed and corruption. If built, this project will surely exceed $5B.
If it’s anything like our ‘high speed rail’ we don’t have to worry because it’ll never be built!
This actually is making progress and being built unlike the phony high speed rail that no one wants. They have spent 100 Bill + when we could have had something a lot more useful, once again stupid liberal policies and projects.
But we’re nevertheless spending billions on that railway that won’t even be a real bullet train. And now it’s been shortened to just Merced and Barstow.
😂10% for the big guy and it's done tomorrow 😅
@@abcsandoval Two of the real swinging cities in California!😀😀
You can thank Elon for stalling it
California definitely needs better water storage, but if this project goes like any other projects in California, expect it to be at least double the projected budget. It would also be a miracle if it got completed.
The projects are not to be completed, they are only to get more votes
They will find some beetle that needs saving and scrap the whole thing..
What the "bullet train" are you talking about!
And double/triple/quadruple the expected, forecasted Completion Date. Let’s be real here:
A lot of major projects go over budget no matter where they are. Especially when you have Republican politicians causing delays and doing anything they can to kill the high-speed rail project. They even asked trump to block it's funding in 2017.
The state water project in the 1960's had allocated future reservoirs as the population rises. They stopped building at 20 million. The current population is 39 million. California has neglected water infrastructure for decades and is now paying the price.
***California has neglected every considerable infrastructure ...
good job with repeating fox propaganda
@@AL-lh2ht except he is actually correct….I live in California and farmers have been lobbying to build more water storage for DECADES….with the democrat run state ignoring not only that but basically every infrastructure we have here. Good job being a leftist shill with little to know critical thinking skills, you can go back to your daily spoon feeding of CNN propaganda now. 😂
@@AL-lh2ht Everything I said was factual.
@@AL-lh2ht ...look it up yourself. This project was first proposed in 1950. California studies didn't begin until 1996. The reservoir wont even be operational until 2030! 80 Years to get a reservoir built? Thank your local Environmentalists and quit making stuff up.
As a Sacramento native I have been watching this project, reservoir levels and snow pack for years. We desperately need something like this and I've been pretty excited about this on, but we definitely need to implement other solutions, I believe recently near Rocklin they've developed a method to locate underground basins with a helicopter and building pump stations to fill them. I I'm not sure about the cost on this but it seems once we identify hundreds of basin and build pump stations we replenish parts of the water table at will.
Love these civil engineering projects that help so many people.
Yes, and right after California just benefited so much from the high-speed rail network project that we paid for!
I would let the Tulare , Owens and other dried lakes fill up again. These would be our natural reservoirs.
Finally, a common sense response. All I see is pie in the sky starry eye types talking here and ignoring the simple solution of repairing the damage that was done to the previously existing lakes. This would also increase the rainfall in southern CA as a nice side benefit. If they were really smart, they'd dig a canal from the Pacific to the salton sea and let it fill up as well. Would be some large profit in doing that, despite the loss of the desert farm lands, which shouldn't be there in the first place. Not like we don't have those all over the place anyway.
Yup, common sense, that is why it will not happen in Cali.
@@zarrothThe salton sea part is not the best idea but otherwise yea I agree. and for my explanation on why is simple it would be making it worse because it still has not outlet it would just be getting more salt faster.
@@zarroth yeah lol well good luck getting California citizens to vote for anyone who isn't insane 😅, Californian's in general I find pretty reasonable, even if I disagree with them. But the people they vote for? I guess that's true most places in America today though 🙃 even where I live
Owens lake has always been shallow, it's not a reservoir type. Also mining companies dumped toxic waste into the river prior to the aqueduct. Now it's a toxic heavy metal waste dust bowl that is now mitigated by wasting significant amounts of drinkable water.
Orange County in Southern California was mostly successful in remedying the county's water issues by expanding one of the main water treatment plants and adding steps to the treatment process so that the water can be pumped back up the Santa Ana River to natural sand percolation/filtration basins. The county reclaims about 20 to 30% of the water it uses this way.
I live here, it also has been blessed with an aquifer. Also heard they are building some other water plant in Newport or something like that.
How much is the water bill though?
Don’t they also have a desalination plant?
I feel like the whole Western U.S. should try recycling its water being as dry as it often is.
@@stuartrinker Huntington Beach tried to get one approved but it was denied. There is a desalination planet further south in Carlsbad though.
When it comes to water here in California, it's either feast or famine so we do have a need for some kind of buffer to level out the dramatic spikes and dips in water availability. The project, on paper, sounds like a great idea to help truncate the extremes....but that's on paper. The real concerns I have is who will put in charge of this project and what kind of red tape? The project itself is a no-brainer as far as helping Californian central valley and as someone who loves trekking up the 395 for camping and trout fishing....I think this is an eventual must. That said, getting competent people to helm this project is also vital. If we can get the right people for the job...great, lets do it because for the long term health of Caliornian businesses and citizens, it's needed....however, if we can't find the right leadership and competent people to make this project a reality...then it's worth to sit on this, we may wind up worse off if the wrong folks are involved.
The 395 is beautiful
Need to make sure that the socal water board and megafarms like WestLands keeps their hands off it. They are as corrupt as can be.
I've got to say, the production quality of this video was 10/10. The music was also 10/10. Phenomenal work!
Wow, thanks a lot😍
Well...9.5/10ths.
The narrator didn't know how to pronounce Tehachapi...
This is definitely a needed project, when California does get the heavy rain fall, they have to capture all that they can.
I question how many pumps they would need in the Sac River in order to fill that lake.
@@leroythemaster4268to fill up I have read it might take 8 years it will also but who knows it also said it will cost more than 5billion and it will take longer than 2030 hopefully not
We live right near the ocean where there’s millions of gallons of free water. Let’s tap in to that first.
Sites reservoir is a horrible idea but restoration of Tulare lake would be the best. Because it's all ready there they just keep it drained so they can use it for AG land and it's close to the California and it has natural rivers and streams that could feed it if it gets too full it spills over to the north which it doesn't need if they hook it up to the aqueduct. Mother nature has already provided it we just need to put it back to Larry lake was considered the Great lake of the West it was a largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi
@@walterwhite1the problem with that is desalination is extremely costly and is actually toxic. Because it concentrate salts. That have to be put back in the ocean
I grew up in the Mojave desert. It's always a drought in the desert....lol
I moved to Mojave in 1984. Just before I left in 1992, we got a lot of rain and the desert blossomed into a beautiful thriving beautiy of green. It was the only time I've seen this. Even the smell of the desert changed.
Because the antelope valley mountain range stop's the moisture from the Pacific Ocean from reaching any where else.
The towns I grew up in in the desert had 10k people in 3 towns, those 3 are at over 200k now, not counting the surrounding cities.
This is one of the best conceived ideas for capturing water in California that I’ve seen in years. I can’t wait till it gets started.
If the past is any guide, you are in for a painful lesson in patience. Look at the California High Speed Rail project. Approved in 2008, it won't be done for at least another decade, and maybe never. The project is currently $100 BILLION overbudget, despite massive dumping of federal dollars. And the main contractor fled to a 3rd world country so they could work for less corrupt politicians....
They could just stop dumping water back in the ocean for a start. CA hasn't built new reservoirs in 40 years. Sorry to say it's all political.
@@skidmoda Ye I was wondering that too, if they need the water so badly why keep letting in back into the ocean?
@@jenson1569 I heard it was an endangered smelt species.
It looks like stage one worked perfectly for me. We need to go into stage 2 with over 40 million people living in this state. I will 100% support Sites Reservoir!!!
I have been involved in the Water Industry for 38 years in California. Worked for various cities (Eureka, San Francisco, Santa Ana) and finished my career as a Stationary Engineer for EBMUD for 27 years. This project gets my vote, it will help the water management in the state for years.
Hello Mr. Evanswhite.
Are you familiar with China's three gorges dam project?
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With your knowledge, could this possibly cause an earthquake?
Thank you.
Stationary Engineer ..like for Hallmark?
What about the restoration of Tulare lake. Instead of the 4b sites mega project
So you were part of the problem for 38 years! Thanks for sharing. Dubai is the fastest growing Metropolis city in the world! You know where they get all there water being in the desert? Desolation plants... The plants are self-sufficient and actually create more energy than they use... Unfortunately this makes too much sense for California, and the libatards that are running the state into the ground!
@@brandonbaumann3903 There is no need to be rude.
It's about time something was done. It's not just Cali. Nevada has also made major changes to prevent water loss and maximize recycling, from what I've heard. The whole desert southwest needs this.
The upper Colorado River compact states in the west don't have to do anything. Except for the drainages in the Great Basin, that run into the Great Salt Lake and Sevier Lake in Utah and smaller catchments in Nevada, the water falling on the rest of those states ends up in the Colorado River. The major cities in Utah don't use that water as they're in the GB and already have sufficient local eservoirs. The areas of the states in the CRB can't use more than their allotment anyway, plus there are extensive reservoirs already, i.e. Lake Powell and Flaming Gorge, that are currently way, way underfilled. So is Lake Mead.
This is California's problem.
Now water conservation, including rain barrels and grey water recycling are something else. That may have been your meaning. All Western states should make better efforts to practice water conservation.
Nevada would have not a problem in the world if California wasn't sucking us dry.
@@leroythemaster4268 I'm a Californian and I can't disagree with you. They should have started working on this project many years ago and not waited until things got this bad. I just moved back here from Sout Florida and their going to be a mess, too. If we don't get a handle on climate change, all of South Florida will be under water, like it was before the Army Corps of Engineers started building canals, so that hucksters could start selling people worthless property in mid 20th century. LOL
@@geoffreyeble32 Agreed.
The governor himself, is a state of emergency
He's a total train wreck in progress.
last rain season ended the drought. lmfao.
I’ve heard about these projects my whole life. Environmentalist groups have been suing to block the projects my whole life.
Yep, they sue to save a fish they say is endangered that isn't even native to the state of California.
@@keinlieb3818what fish isn’t native?
The Delta Smelt is not native
Nothing gets done in America anymore
This will come to an end. All citizens of the Western US need to understand how our water use and allocation came to be, both California and the entire Colorado River Basin. This is required reading and research. In reality since California supplies so much agricultural products to the nation this isn't just a California or Western USA problem either.
The restoration of Tulare Lake in the San Joaquin Valley, which is naturally happening RIGHT NOW is a much better idea. More than double the amount of water can be held in it at 1/5th the cost. The area currently grows cotton, which is completely unsuitable for this part of the world.
yes yes yes its already there , merde alors!!
The video is crystal clear and a worthy project
This video is great but it doesn't stress enough how challenging California's precipitation cycles can be. It doesn't rain much in California and the reservoirs are almost entirely dependent on snow falling over the mountains in the winter. A project like this can help ease the predictable snowmelt after a big season.
It can rain a lot. It has here the last few days. And we do have years of flooding. I lived in the Sacramento valley, in a town surrounded by two rivers: the Feather River and the Yuba River. I can tell you from my childhood and young adulthood, that lots of winters, the rivers would swell and be encroaching on the tops of the levies that protected the town. Flooding IS part of some areas of the state.
Okay so, yes, do that, but also, RESTORE LAKE TULARE. It's already ressurecting and should be restablished in its entirety.
Yes, well, Lake Tulare is owned and controlled by one of the richest private farmers in the country. Years ago, he convinced the federal government to build Pine Flat Reservoir for 'flood control'..control of water so that he could farm there. Great idea, but it will never happen. It's a plantation economy here in the Central Valley.
Which is a bummer. The lake i think is likely a huge ecological resource especially in a drought prone state like ours. I can't believe we put these artificial resevoirs all over and then destroy naturally occuring lakes and THEN spend billions for infrastructure to keep a Lake from being a Lake and even more to divert waterways for the purpose of the resevoir system...like it all just seems like hyper expensive insanity. And then the amount of public money that gets used to ensure the interests of private enterprise in a country with no healthcare for its citizens and like...it makes one wonder what the point of all of it is really when we ruin so much for the raw material to make disposable fashion (since its all for cotton)
California's weather pattern has always been very dry years followed by very wet years as long as I can remember . I actually remember being a kid back in the 70's and CA going through major dry years, everyone in Southern California had to let their swimming pools dry up and that was when skateboarding in swimming pools started like in the movie LORDS OF DOGTOWN. He's definitely right about the population in CA going up 20 million since our last major water project but the growth of Industrial farming has also had a major impact on the water supplies . It takes a lot of water to grow avocados and almonds for all that almond milk.
Oat milks far superior to almond milk… people should switch.
@@shasmi93 Coconut milk and oil. Nothing is healthier. Even great for whitening your teeth.
Yep. It sickens me to drive up and down the state anymore. As Kid growing up in the 1970's and a teen in the 1980's, you could see peaches, plums, cherries, apricots, kiwi, grapes, rice, and a few nut orchards. Now everyone has ripped out their fruit trees for almonds. It takes 1 gallon of water to grow 1 almond. Hugely wasteful, and these morons think it's better for the environment than pastured cow milk. Sorry. It ain't true.
During the 1976-77 drought more then one municipal water supply dried up. For example in Northern Ca we had temporary pipelines pumping water over the bridges to feed areas that had no water. The state had concluded in 78 that for the safety of the population more water storage was desperately needed. When the drought ended it was not environmentalists that stopped reservoirs from being built. When the drought ended Ca had a long period with very wet winters and the politicians did not want to spend money on any of the proposed projects.
They should’ve never drained Californias Great Lake
About time CA increases water storage capacity.
Your video just described the existing San Luis Reservoir in central California where water is pumped into the reservoir from the Sacramento River, but where pumping water is currently blocked because an invasive fish was found in the river and somehow must now be protected. The video seems more of a sales pitch along the same lines as the high speed railroad project. Lots of funding that go into pockets of beneficiaries rather than the project. A project where the main function is already blocked by current environmental protection laws. If the central California's were smart, they would press/protest the issue of the San Luis pumps being shut off at the same meetings of the Sites Dam, so that attention would be brought forward to a costly project that is doomed from the start. California has a problem with water management, not an issue with storage capacities.
Get the point, we also mentioned it in the video but didn‘t go more into detail. However we are definitly not pitching for any projects that we talk about😅 We try to be neutral
Talk to your gov. The federal pumps were running at full power, Your gov ordered state pumps off even though per court order there was nothing to stop them from running. Ask your gov how much he got and gets from utilties investing in billion buck desalination plants, and the billion buck power plants needed to run them, and the billions in fossil fuel needed every year to fuel them. All passed on to rate payers and given to the richest who own the project, and the billions in gov't bonds floated to pay for them.
@@russell7489 they will never power any desalination plants unless we make a return to nuclear power 🔋
@@russell7489 Exactly. Shortages are man made in CA, whether its water, electricity or buildable land. It enriches certain people (Can you guess?)
@@christiankruse1970 The Rezniks and Socal developers.
Haarp has contributed almost 100% of the problems of the weather being that they control it for the most
The technology on display here is amazing.
As someone who lives in California, I think the Sites project is long over due. This winter was a missed opportunity to fill additional reservoirs. In part with water that can't be stored as reservoir levels are managed to accommodate snow melt.
The project may be expensive, but the cost is small compared to the cost of lost revenue from drought. Also, the reservoir provides an additional place to obtain water for fighting wild fires, which could represent more savings.
I say, take the four billion from the corrupt cucks running the state into a wall of debt, homelessness and crime. Reduce pr!ck Gavin Newsom’s income!!
Missed opportunity… never cali summed up better.
Fully agree. We need this desperately
But it might kill a lizard or something.... good luck getting this past the environmental psychopaths. I can 100% guarantee you this project will be wildly over budget and behind schedule.
I agree! Way long over due and imagine what this last storm season could have done for filling it up. Then again, we have a high speed "Bullet Train", oh wait, that was massive flop and waste of 15B tax payer dollars, a train system that doesn't exist and what little does goes no faster than a regular train between to uncommon start & end points..
If there are no other dams to be built other than this, then it's best to build it asap
Bringing the beavers back into the watershed would make major improvements as well, beavers are natures, finest Hydro engineers
I wonder the impact of such a reservoir in Ca, such as the earthquake impact.
I live in Central Washington State. We depend on massive irrigation projects to collect snow melt in the mountains used later to water crops. We too have massive pumping lift stations, giant canals, and assortment of dams. We have very fertile soils but lack water. The demands for water will always be greater than annual supply.
When I lived in Washington it rained like 75% of the time. Idk how there is any lack of water in that state. I've never lived anywhere else where it rained so much.
@@punchabunchofbuttons214 I'd guess you lived on the west side of the mountains. As moist air move up over mountains, it cools, can't hold as much moisture, drops most of the moisture on the mountains (generally as snow), and comes down the other side of the mountain much drier. That's why the leeward side of decently sized mountains is generally a much more arid (or even desert) climate than on the windward side. Western Washington is very rainy from moist air from the pacific, and central and eastern Washington are much more arid because of the Cascades pulling most of the moisture from the air as it travels west to east across the state.
@@punchabunchofbuttons214 Thanks for comment. I live in Yakima, we only get 6-9 inches total all year long. Seattle gets around 36.
@@punchabunchofbuttons214 Common misconception. Most of Eastern Washington (East of the Cascade Mountain Range) is high desert plain. There are areas that get less than 3" a year. The West side of the state, peninsula and the Puget Sound region get a ton of rain. I lived in Spokane and worked remote for companies in California and on almost every conference call I would get someone saying "Raining up there?".... It got annoying.
Our family farm in Spokane irrigated with water from Grand Coulee Dam, that water had its source in Canada.
It's called the natural rain cycle in CA.
Except it hasn’t been natural. We’ve been in a drought for a long time. But this winter we had an uncommonly strong atmospheric river which brought more rain than usual. Where tf you get your news from?
@@magesalmanac6424😂 The first sign of someone's lack of knowledge (ignorance) is the use of insults.
Grewsom loves his Emergency powers.!
Collecting water isnt rocket science. Im just amazed at the incompetence of the people in charge nowadays
Use gray water to water grass lawns and flower gardens. Save water off roofs to water food gardens.
Whaat!? You you mean that people are going to have to take personal action themselves!? "Whadda we pay taxes for, I shouldn't have to do ANYTHING".
It’s a start, but they have to stop dragging their feet and get it done… This year would have been the perfect year if it was already done. Missed opportunity for sure, but I doubt anyone knew just how much water they’d be getting this year, plus the snow melt that’s on the way. Hopefully they can do something to collect it before its too late too.
He conveniently left out all that snow California got 2022-2023!
Stop populating desert cities.
You're right, no one would have predicted the extreme rainfall, snow, snowpack and runoff in California, but they should have expected a reversal to more average conditions. Weather is not climate and vice versa. The drought in the SW is a trend. Trends reverse from time to time. I'm not a climate change denier, we see it happening. But an extreme drought could be predicted to be followed by at least more average or closer to average water years.
So yes, Cali should build this project and others. The Colorado River is over-allocated and has been since the beginning. And with an extensive, high altitude mountain range such as the Sierra Nevada, there should be no such thing as any of that runoff going into the Pacific Ocean.
It’s odd there was no mention of desalination in this video. California currently has 12 plants and building more is definitely an option.
Desalination is extremely expensive, particularly when the tree-huggers fight tooth and nail against building nuclear plants to power it.
Desalinization is very very expensive.
@@stevemicahel8733 So is a $4 billion reservoir.
That made me feel warm and fuzzy 😊😊😊😊😊
FYI most of the state has had it’s drought status reduced or removed entirely. We’re also expecting the return of El Niño over the next 2 years. That brings lots of rain and cold to California.
Yes lets live in the moment! Screw the next 20 years
Did you even watch the video? CA cant capture enough water while it is here it will go away after 5 or more years. How long do you plan on living here?
@@liindawgg what are you talking about? The last massive rains was in early 2000s, and the ones before that was in the late 70s early 90s. The location of the Dam is not in a high drought area. The reason why this project was put off for so long wasn't a lack of foresight it was because the south needed to build more reservoirs which in areas of high drought. To be honest the amount of money spent on this project just to have a reservoir is not worth the price. That money should be spent on Building more systems to recharge California's underground Aquifers (you know the water source that is responsible for 40% of california's water during the Decades of drought). But I am sure you know all about that and your comment to be facetious and not sarcastic.
@LiiNDAWgg That's not what he said and NO ONE lives more in the moment than a leftard.
@@gniawd Alarmist crap
Yes, build it. The value of the project will increase with time.
Building a dam along the southern border would offer water supply to dry areas along the border.
When a desert doesn't have water you don't call it a drought
We’re not in a drought anymore. We’re in normal cycles. Everyone calls out periods of no water a drought but it’s been the same cycles since I’ve been alive here for 43 years. We need more water storage. I hope they build the dams.
I mean... it's just been one year. You're assuming we're gonna get a ton of rain next year. I.. I just don't know if that's a smart idea. We do need more water storage but to assume that we're gonna see this amount of water next year and then the next year after that? I don't think that's smart.
Build storage but assume the worst and keep conserving water the best we can despite the whole "we have to preserve the almond industry at the cost of our very survival" mentality.
I’ve heard that this drought language is misleading because it gives the impression that the dry cycles are abnormal. They’re not actually.
@@cosmicallyderived they’ve been doing it to us since we were kids. California water history is an ugly thing. If you’ve never seen a movie called China Town, it’s an amazing film. I don’t know how historically accurate it is but it will give you a basic idea of how California has gotten the water system we have now.
@@melchiorentreri3651 I didn’t hear anyone say that we were going to continue to get this much rain year after year. Ca goes through cycles of very wet years and many year gaps with little rain fall. We had a bit of a red herring this year. This was our transition year between La Niña and El Niño. Historically, it should have produced moderate rainfall. We had several great winter cold storms early and then our Pineapple Express set up. It was a water windfall for the state. El Niño is now here. This next winter based on historical data, should be very wet again. The problem will be that we have little to no new water infrastructure to take advantage of 23/24’s El Niño. It’s a missed opportunity as a “drought” will likely return in 2025- through possibly 2030. Just like everything we do in Ca, we always spend billions of dollars on infrastructure to see it remain unused, or 💩canned in the middle of the project. We could have also dredged or expanded current reservoirs storage when they were drained from our most recent drought. I did not hear of any projects that attempted to do any of that. Our bureaucrats are about as smart as a box of rocks here in Ca, when it comes to water.
@@melchiorentreri3651 as others have stated, this is how water works in California. That's why there's so many reservoirs.
Yeah but we do have about 250 percent of the snow pack that we usually do and stop water from going to the ocean and pump it all into settling ponds so it can go into the water table I watched a wash and it was full for a couple of weeks and I wonder how much of it could we have kept from going out to the oceans
Well done❤
To combat droughts and the spreading of wild fires we need more beavers around the city. Beavers create wetlands because they block off river streams creating a huge puddle of water wider then the beavers actual home. Even if it looks destructive it’s a natural barrier of water preventing fires from going passed that soggy wet land and it’ll keep the land wet for longer preventing dry seasons.
Absolutely. Problem is most of the banks are private land.
I imagine there are some other locations where such dams could work. Not just in California but some of the other SW states as well.
We need more of this all over the country
No we don’t . The eastern side of the United States has plenty of water.
As a seasoned armchair Architect with a vast RUclips watching experience, I think this is necessary but not sufficient. Next video please!
The Valley USED to be Lake Corcan which coved MOST of the area, it eventually drained itself out leaving behind all of our little lakes
Am thinking they cant get it done fast enough....But i would hope this is not the only water project in the works....Would like to see smaller projects undertaken for communities where the projects wouldnt be as difficult or expensive thereby eliminating them from projects like this...
Romans and Persians had great water infrastructure projects.
I'm a big fan of the fact that it taps off of a river rather than blocking it. This sounds like a win/win for the environment and the residents.
Agree, and it gets back the energy from pumping when its released is a big deal.
San Luis Resevoir is like that
Yes, that appeals to me, too.
No win at all. The water rights to the Sacramento River water are already higher than the river produces. Now they're going to build a lake that sucks even more water out of an already over stressed supply.
And saying the lake will be filled by winter water levels is a total joke. I grew up in Colusa and those "floods" and "high water events" only happen about every five to ten years, sometimes longer. The rest of the time everyone has to conserve water because there's not enough.
There are other ways, smarter ways to go about conservation of Californias shrinking supply of water and a project like this that will only increase the states water storage by less than 1% isn't one of them.
Nice Vid!
This is how the control how much water you’re “allowed” to have
Get this built ASAP!
Yes, but make it very cheap to. No pumps, just pips from Keswick Dam. And no pumps needed, and you save a lot off energy and constrution time.
Yes.. We need more such insightful episodes.
It's about time. california has had a feast or famine water situation for as long as I can remember.
That's great, so what do they have planned for L.A.? I was driving west on the 91, and all of that rain water washing out to the Ocean.
I definitely appreciate a video with an objective approach to our water issues. Well done!
Build it. Building late is better than never.
Like High Speed Rail, it will take 30 years and cost 5 times the initial price.
The mega dam needs to cross the Carquinez!!😂😂
California is no longer in a drought 👏👏🇺🇸
In Germany you have to make sure that all the rain that falls on your property, stays on your property and seeps into the ground. This greatly reduces the cost for rainwater sewage systems and prevents flood waves from forming in rivers.
different climate entirely
We are using this now. New project must mitigate off site runoff using swales to slow down flow and allow percolation plus using dry wells rather than storm drains that drain to the sea. Soon as these projects are done, the site owners will try and figure out how much is reaching the aquifer which the water companies use to supply potable water. A system of rebates are in the future, I’m sure.
This first came up during Arnold Schwarzeneggers term as governor, and was being pushed then, after he went out it wasn't brought up again for about 12 years,. It's a excellent idea and very cost effective also because it's in this Valley. This is somewhere up near Colusa CA, but as I remember, it's not going to be terribly deep like Oroville and Shasta, so probably not a recreational lake
The Governator put California into debt. He is even hated by Republicans. He's responsible for the resurrection of Governor Moonbeam's Career and the fact that Republicans will never control California again.
It will take 10 years to clear all the law suits and environmental issues. Beside they have a very expensive train to no where that provides all the graft they need, it would take to long to create new graft avenues.
@@fjanson2468 there's really no opposition to this, but back in 2007 there was this location and another further north which was underground as I remember
Not deep? So it will more easily evaporate due to greater surface area?
Gov Arnold wanted to a bit over $4 Billion on adding water storage and conservation projects. That was before 2010. The Dem Perma Majority in the Legislature ... Said that "It was not needed, and a waste of $$$ " Voted it down. More recently Jerry Brown had "deffered" Maintenance of Infrastructure... Eventually leading to the Oroville spillway Near Disaster! They had to Evacuate 188k people, due to Brown's ignoring Facts.
I grow up in Central Valley California I think building multi mega dam would make sense for the future of California and the southern states dams as Isabela to the south would make sense for entire state of California.
Oh, the drought is now most definitely OVER!
Hearing him say Tehachapi was hilarious
I replayed that part of few times.
Go ahead with the Sites Dam!!!!!!!!
Absolutely. The Sites Dam and reservoir are excellent environmentally beneficial project concepts that should have been built years ago. It would be a simple thing to identify wasteful projects that could have been canceled to fund the Sites projects.
New mega resavior is also important for us. We can store water for future used.
For all of us locals.. the Colorado desert is the Sonora. Same same different name. I had to look that up cause I never heard it called the Colorado desert lol
To be fair, he was listing the names of basins, not deserts. )
Yep, there is no Colorado Desert. The U.S. has 4 deserts, the Great Basin, Sonoran, Mojave and a little of the Chihuahuan. There is the Colorado Plateau, mostly in Utah and Arizona, which technically qualifies as one based on annual rainfall, but it's never referred to as a desert.
Who knew setting up agricultural and urban sprawl in the middle of one of the driest deserts on America would be a bad idea?
Who could have possible seen this coming?!?!
We know that fools post bullshit.
On the other hand, I give you Tulare: who knew trying to turn a giant lake into farmland with dams and levies and expecting low rain levels forever would be a bad idea?
This isn't the 1700's. Technology exists and we can move and store water. How far do you live from your food source in the grocery store? Was it a dumb idea to NOT live on a farm?
Yeah, thanks AZ and NV😏
They also drained their inland lake. Now they basically wish they hadn't. Maybe don't do that, California!
This is one of these videos where I just have to say, DAMN!!!
Thank God Northern California has the Hetch Hetchy snow pack water.
Land for the site's reservoir has all ready been granted and no crops are being grown there. I too live in norcal and we need that reservoir for multiple reasons.
Im not sure we’re in a drought anymore, it’s officially over. Lake Tulare is back baby!!! 🤙🏾
Think that volcano in the Pacific a year ago which sucked huge amounts of water into the 3rd layer of our earth caused the drought and than earthquakes and floods along the coastal areas of CA?
@@1m2rich bro hook me up with your LSD dealer
As a Californian we are no longer in a drought most of the state is drought free
It’s a good idea but it’ll never be built the states to corrupt and it’ll end up costing too much
It’s basically decades of water “Mismanagement” by the cities and State ( more importantly, the State).
The City of San Diego has been doing things right and many cities can learn from their success.
And yet some of the highest taxes.
@@mikelarry2602 Yes. Heaven forfend that people should have to pay for the services they receive.
@@jarvisfamily3837 No, call it by its real name government theft.
Ubiquitous aquafer recharge needs to become the norm across all communities to handle runoff.
Good idea!
I love the juxtaposition of the shots from the cities, showing ultra green golf courses and lawns.
Golf courses are a huge waste of water
And swimming pools. CA should ban the building of new pools beyond a small size, and require water conserving covers on all pools.
They definitely need to do this asap anything that will help but we can't act like California and all those dry hot places will be wet like mid east or the places that naturally receive more rain
A water bond for $7Billion was passed in 2014. They've done nothing with it except rebuild Oroville spillway. This project could have been completed for this year's excess rain. Sad.
I wonder how much water will evaporate from the new lake. It looks to be rather shallow, compared to its size.
And maybe enough people will move out of Cal that it will not be needed.
i live i Oroville, Ca.... WE have a fish hatchery, so the effect on the Salmon or nile. So much so, we have a Salmon festival and the Salmon and Bass fishing here is some of the best.
This looks like a very good solution to several problems. Yes, the cost is high. So is the cost of flooding and drought.
Instead of pumping water uphill into a reservoir that will cost way more than they originally estimated, why not pump the water down into the water table that is constantly dropping and causing the ground to subside?
Money taxes. 4bn is cail after bull shitn will 12b
the mountains are granite. and have granite roots that go down many klms into the earth
Because you can't, once an aquifer is empty and collapses you can't pump water back in.
Look @ You. Trying to be a Geo-engineer? atta boy, have a Cigar Kid, your gunna go far.
It's California, they will screw it up no matter what......but they will virtue signal...oh how they will virtue signal.!
Why doesn't it have rainwater collection. It's easy to establish both residential and commercial. Water stays in the cities and reservoirs can be used for ag and emergencies. A lot of areas need to adopt this type of plan.
Imagine how many toilets could be flushed and recycled back into a city's system
I've heard of the Sites Reservoir and I don't know why it wasn't built long ago. But $4 billion sounds like someone must be skimming.
It would be insane to not do this.
California is having such a severe water shortage, they may need to create these ocean water reservoirs and install Desalination Plants to get their water. Taking water from the Colorado River and Snake River is not enough.
Can we all agree that "the weather" is nature's perfect desalination operation and humans need to adapt to use the vast amount of pure water that comes from the sky? Nature doesn't pump tons of brine back into the ocean to disrupt the ecology.
Only 10% of the water in California are used by people in communities/cities, cows & almonds use more water. Maybe stop having so many cows
Good to see somebody in California is considering the future. One point to help clarify your use of the word drought. "Drought" means that there is a shortfall of water demanded for use. California's drought has nothing to do with climate or rainfall. It has to do with population increase and the lack of water holding capacity. The answer to your question, "When will the drought end?" , is never, because you do not have enough holding capacity to meet people's needs. When I was growing up in CA (1960 -75). Water was abundant and hydroelectic power made electricity clean and cheap. That was due to number of reservoirs per capita. California can return to that if they wish to.
Cool clear water, bring it on...
In addition to something like this, so much more could be done for water supply in the southwest. I have proposed that we cover Lake Mead with solar panels to reduce evaporation and generate power at the same time.
How about not letting the water flow out into the ocean?
@@andypeterson8013 It doesn't. The Colorado River has rarely reached the ocean since the 60s.