They're building a huge one already. Off stream and the largest Reservoir in the state. It is almost completed. Build a system that's ready for four times the normal amount and watch it not rain for 25 years and how people will be pissed off spending so much money on such a huge system that never gets used. They've been building for years. As for where the massive lake is refilling Bay demanded not to be helped before fearing their water would be stolen. Nobody's able to take it down. They won and they did not add to their dikes which have sunk with their land 10 to 20 ft. There was state and federal money and they didn't want outside interference. Lots of diversions have been built up high to take the water to the South that are brand new moving record amounts of water and turning on massive pumps for the first time. A lot of water is filling the aquifer that was never available before moving as a powerful River the new irrigation diversion canals and siphons to where the water is absorbed quickly. Indeed they've done a lot of impressive things with much continuing progress.
“It’s pretty easy to solve the problem” *proceeds to propose multi-billion dollar project* I’m right there with ya ken but we can’t even successfully build a high speed rail.
@Infinite Adam is it possible to do both? The rail project is a 200 mph Los Angeles to San Diego project, the highway is packed in between the two so people are going between them. The 4.4 billion dollar Sites Reservoir system is about 10 years from completion and will be the largest Reservoir in California. Lots of other projects have been constructed and online for the first time moving enormous amounts of water. The Levee breaks at Tulare Lake was caused by local opposition to the state and federal government wanting to invest on the levees and local water projects about a decade ago. They did not want interference in their water policies and declined loudly to leave us alone. Now they're swimming in the water, the lake has reappeared. Much has been accomplished in the past 10 years. A year ago some would consider all this new bone-dry infrastructure as a waste of money. Projects that have been completed are filled to the brim with water lessening flooding concerns Downstream and moving a lot of water replenishing groundwater supplies. Pump as much as you can and want is the current irrigation canal policies and the state has pumps available to borrow. An unusual year with four times the amount of water, a record amount. Planning for something that never has happened such as this to catch every drop will have taxpayers endlessly pissed off wasting money on something will never use. A few months ago the Mississippi River was record dry and now it's record flooding. How to get that water into the Aguila aquifer isn't a big topic of discussion. I would like to see them move water from The Dakotas to Kansas and Nebraska and I don't recall any projects focusing on the Mississippi. Every year the Dakotas flood and so does the Mississippi. I think this is the next great water capture to focus upon. The current Congress isn't interested in spending money on these kind of projects. Expect more tax cuts for those that don't pay taxes that have too much money, increased taxes on those that don't pay taxes because they have too little money, eliminating subsidies for solar and alternative energies as well as hunger. And why did Twitter take down Hunter Biden's dick video and blocked marjorie's lies? We'll soon find out because that's where the focus is. I think it's more Congress can't do more than one thing at a time.
From what I understand it's pump as much as you can with all irrigation districts inviting Farmers to flood. The irrigation districts have their ditches running full blast.
It's actually helpfull and flood preventing to pump as much water as you can. County should invite people to bring all available pumps and water everything, even their damn lawns. 😊 If water goes to groundwater, it will be stored for drought years to come. The main snowmelt is still to come.
As of todays on 4/29/23, we have 16 weeks, the governor said before we flood here in Tulare ca/ Kings County, all the water from the sierras will end up in our towns. Its surreal and scary.
@@blkcoupequattro I couldn't remember the name given to that volcano, thanks. The biggest explosion ever seen on earth sure could vaporize a lot of water.
Why, so they can grow more almonds that get shipped overseas? The farmers don't need more water, they need to change what they grow and how they do business.
No info about raising roads to serve as dykes and surrounding fields with dykes to allow them to hold flood waters and boring holes to replenish the aquifers. They s/b creating flood ponds in areas and protecting buildings with dykes and creating new higher building pads. They s/b deepening waterways with dredging and removing obstructions that can become bridge damaging and waterway clogging and destroying debris. They s/b be creating a path to allow the water to be stored in Tule Lake and other low areas and deepening those low areas b4 the water gets there.
What matters is that this type of #abby_normal seasonal variation *RECHARGES* the entire Aquifer producing a situation combined with the enormous sunlight hours out West to create *STUNNING* amounts of life/vegetation. How much carry over from this Year to next Year I think is what most will be watching as there is already a crazy amount in *"storage"* (reservoirs/Lakes, still frozen in the Mountains, in trees, mountain springs etc.) The amount of Water out USA West ways no matter what the Weather Guy might say is quite remarkable so, well...great time to become expert at building retaining walls basically.
As far as I'm concerned this is a good problem to have. Even if some of the land in the Central Valley floods, the long-term benefit will be recharging groundwater aquifers throughout the valley and assures that farms can pump out water as needed to irrigate ON TOP OF getting potable water to the millions of residents living there -- not to mention the share that L.A. takes. No one likes to have their houses flooded, I get it; but the alternative could've also forced 100,000s of farm workers to lose their jobs and would have to leave the area anyway. Flooding is temporary; being no longer able to grow crops permanently for lack of water impacts _every. single. American._ from coast to coast.
It is so sad that the richest state of the union cannot capture and store this Precious Resource, rather than letting out to the Pacific ocean. Ridiculous!
Even if they could the environazis at DEQ would see to it that as much water as possible flows into the Pacific, in order to save a few bait fish. In that regard California is its own worst enemy. They're working on a system to divert excess runoff in good years to underground aquifers in the Central Valley, which is where that runoff really needs to go; but it won't matter if wacked-out environmental bureaucrats use their authority to shut down productive farm land and divert millions of acre-feet of runoff into the ocean. Disband the CEQA nazis and CA will have all the water it can handle.
The Answer. Lower water rates then drop water restrictions. The answer to flooding it too take longer showers wash your car on your lawn's and rinse off your driveways and sidewalks and run water sprinklers all night long.
Divert water Into Coaiinga or Avenal. They have multiple dry creek beds. Some are very large.
Its pretty easy to solve the problem. Build more reservoirs. For right now flood the farm fields to save the towns!
They're building a huge one already. Off stream and the largest Reservoir in the state. It is almost completed. Build a system that's ready for four times the normal amount and watch it not rain for 25 years and how people will be pissed off spending so much money on such a huge system that never gets used. They've been building for years. As for where the massive lake is refilling Bay demanded not to be helped before fearing their water would be stolen. Nobody's able to take it down. They won and they did not add to their dikes which have sunk with their land 10 to 20 ft. There was state and federal money and they didn't want outside interference. Lots of diversions have been built up high to take the water to the South that are brand new moving record amounts of water and turning on massive pumps for the first time. A lot of water is filling the aquifer that was never available before moving as a powerful River the new irrigation diversion canals and siphons to where the water is absorbed quickly. Indeed they've done a lot of impressive things with much continuing progress.
“It’s pretty easy to solve the problem”
*proceeds to propose multi-billion dollar project*
I’m right there with ya ken but we can’t even successfully build a high speed rail.
Im from Florida but I heard they decided to build a train that goes to nowhere instead of spending the money on Reservoirs.
@Infinite Adam is it possible to do both? The rail project is a 200 mph Los Angeles to San Diego project, the highway is packed in between the two so people are going between them. The 4.4 billion dollar Sites Reservoir system is about 10 years from completion and will be the largest Reservoir in California. Lots of other projects have been constructed and online for the first time moving enormous amounts of water. The Levee breaks at Tulare Lake was caused by local opposition to the state and federal government wanting to invest on the levees and local water projects about a decade ago. They did not want interference in their water policies and declined loudly to leave us alone. Now they're swimming in the water, the lake has reappeared. Much has been accomplished in the past 10 years. A year ago some would consider all this new bone-dry infrastructure as a waste of money. Projects that have been completed are filled to the brim with water lessening flooding concerns Downstream and moving a lot of water replenishing groundwater supplies. Pump as much as you can and want is the current irrigation canal policies and the state has pumps available to borrow. An unusual year with four times the amount of water, a record amount. Planning for something that never has happened such as this to catch every drop will have taxpayers endlessly pissed off wasting money on something will never use. A few months ago the Mississippi River was record dry and now it's record flooding. How to get that water into the Aguila aquifer isn't a big topic of discussion. I would like to see them move water from The Dakotas to Kansas and Nebraska and I don't recall any projects focusing on the Mississippi. Every year the Dakotas flood and so does the Mississippi. I think this is the next great water capture to focus upon. The current Congress isn't interested in spending money on these kind of projects. Expect more tax cuts for those that don't pay taxes that have too much money, increased taxes on those that don't pay taxes because they have too little money, eliminating subsidies for solar and alternative energies as well as hunger. And why did Twitter take down Hunter Biden's dick video and blocked marjorie's lies? We'll soon find out because that's where the focus is. I think it's more Congress can't do more than one thing at a time.
California has 1,300 reservoirs, and 1,400 dams.
As a farmer can we pump water out of the canals for irrigation?
From what I understand it's pump as much as you can with all irrigation districts inviting Farmers to flood. The irrigation districts have their ditches running full blast.
It's actually helpfull and flood preventing to pump as much water as you can. County should invite people to bring all available pumps and water everything, even their damn lawns. 😊 If water goes to groundwater, it will be stored for drought years to come. The main snowmelt is still to come.
Check with your water district. In some areas farmers aren't allowed to pump without restrictions.
As of todays on 4/29/23, we have 16 weeks, the governor said before we flood here in Tulare ca/ Kings County, all the water from the sierras will end up in our towns. Its surreal and scary.
There was a massive explosion in the Pacific spawning a volcano a while back, as I recall.
Hunga Tonga has spoken.....
@@blkcoupequattro I couldn't remember the name given to that volcano, thanks. The biggest explosion ever seen on earth sure could vaporize a lot of water.
Give the water to our farmers
Why, so they can grow more almonds that get shipped overseas? The farmers don't need more water, they need to change what they grow and how they do business.
Isn't 80% enough?
@@thorne1239 Well I don't grow almonds but your response is such that farmers don't need water.
No info about raising roads to serve as dykes and surrounding fields with dykes to allow them to hold flood waters and boring holes to replenish the aquifers. They s/b creating flood ponds in areas and protecting buildings with dykes and creating new higher building pads. They s/b deepening waterways with dredging and removing obstructions that can become bridge damaging and waterway clogging and destroying debris. They s/b be creating a path to allow the water to be stored in Tule Lake and other low areas and deepening those low areas b4 the water gets there.
What matters is that this type of #abby_normal seasonal variation *RECHARGES* the entire Aquifer producing a situation combined with the enormous sunlight hours out West to create *STUNNING* amounts of life/vegetation. How much carry over from this Year to next Year I think is what most will be watching as there is already a crazy amount in *"storage"* (reservoirs/Lakes, still frozen in the Mountains, in trees, mountain springs etc.) The amount of Water out USA West ways no matter what the Weather Guy might say is quite remarkable so, well...great time to become expert at building retaining walls basically.
As far as I'm concerned this is a good problem to have. Even if some of the land in the Central Valley floods, the long-term benefit will be recharging groundwater aquifers throughout the valley and assures that farms can pump out water as needed to irrigate ON TOP OF getting potable water to the millions of residents living there -- not to mention the share that L.A. takes. No one likes to have their houses flooded, I get it; but the alternative could've also forced 100,000s of farm workers to lose their jobs and would have to leave the area anyway. Flooding is temporary; being no longer able to grow crops permanently for lack of water impacts _every. single. American._ from coast to coast.
Wild fires or flooding every year in California
Well, we've also got droughts and earthquakes.
It is so sad that the richest state of the union cannot capture and store this Precious Resource, rather than letting out to the Pacific ocean. Ridiculous!
Even if they could the environazis at DEQ would see to it that as much water as possible flows into the Pacific, in order to save a few bait fish. In that regard California is its own worst enemy.
They're working on a system to divert excess runoff in good years to underground aquifers in the Central Valley, which is where that runoff really needs to go; but it won't matter if wacked-out environmental bureaucrats use their authority to shut down productive farm land and divert millions of acre-feet of runoff into the ocean. Disband the CEQA nazis and CA will have all the water it can handle.
We're having a water shortage can't you see
Haarp weather modification causing atmosphere river
There is no water! Raise the rates to pay for some There is too much water! Raise the rates to get rid of it!
The Answer.
Lower water rates then drop water restrictions.
The answer to flooding it too take longer showers wash your car on your lawn's and rinse off your driveways and sidewalks and run water sprinklers all night long.
I’m here at millerton lake right now Someone needs to get fired you guys let wasaaaaay too much water out. I’d be surprised if it get replaced.
All this bitching about water must mean that all the bitching about drought has dried up temporarily.