Lake mead 60 day deadline by dept of Reclamation to restore water levels
Jun 30, 2022 The Dept of reclamation has issued an august deadline to come up with a conservation Solution between the 7 Upper and lower basin states or the Fed Government Threatens to step it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLMVXM-_7Rw
They are consuming too much water and are unable to conserve it, the feds just stepped in (Bureau of Reclamation) and have threatened a 60 day deadline for the upper states of the Colorado River to come up with a solution. Will they do anything? Probably not, and there goes water & power for California, etc from the Hoover Dam.
Electric cars are non-essential 😉
We can always restart the large coal burning electrical power plants in Texas after the Supreme Court decision.
That might help. 😲
IIRC Texas is completely disconnected from the rest of the US power grid, and this was intentional so that power in Texas cannot be regulated by the federal government, because it is not interstate commerce.
So while I like where you're thinking, I think at this juncture it's not possible.
There are ties for emergency power near OK and Mexico but you’re spot on, def won’t help west coast. Starting up coal plants will help TX pedes tho 😁
The same IIRC that did not start a idle generator during Snowmageddon because they're ALL communist liberals? That one?
Exactly. I had no power for 10 days and I’m in the city, not rural. No rolling blackouts for my neighborhood. It was a complete system failure. Gas fireplace worked and could cook on the gas stove but was still 45 degrees in my house for 10 f*ing days!
Most of it is. There a corridor on the eastern border that is still fed by federal sources.
My kids and I were just talking about this, tho we didnt know about the deadline. We wee just saying watch, they will fear monger until they finally will miraculously find way to replenish it. If you live in LV you know the amount of water and power used for casinos, resorts, golf courses. They will find a way to add water to the man made lake, imo.
Yea, I’ve been keeping up with this guys updates https://youtu.be/mm97Wok4ElM
10 days. Darkness? Watch the water. Very interesting....
They need to find the leak and plug it, simple as that. :P Honestly, what happened in 2021 that suddenly the water level went to a steep and steady downard slope without rising up again like it normally does? I mean It had started creeping lower and lower over the years then suddenly, just like everything else seemed to do, it has been on a constant free fall in the last two years.
I think it's an immediate effect of the massive amount of people leaving CA. Personally, before I left CA and because of neverending lockdowns, I was going to Vegas for some of my activities in early 2020. Then moved to North LV in mid 2020. Then in less than a year North Vegas wasn't the same, it felt taken over by cali culture and tweakers and I left further out east away from NV and CA.
Drought?
Watch the water...
Lake Mead and Hoover Dam sit about 370-375m above sea level, the official water level report uses MSL for measurement. So the actual water levels are lower than reported given the difference. Built under FDR, the same administration that detached the dollar off gold.
Lake Mead has a drought intensity chart as follows, Drought Intensity: D0 - Abnormally Dry D1 - Moderate Drought D2 - Severe Drought D3 - Extreme Drought D4 - Exceptional Drought
I assumed because of the nature of this operation it's not a far off thought to follow up with this, In the CS world we count from 0. For example, VLAN 1 is VLAN0. Or well known ports on a device range from 0-1023. Not 1-1023. I'm implying that D4=D5, D0=D1, D1=D2, etc.
The keywords '1=0' and 'D5' are in Q drops in the time frames of late August to September. No mention of the keyword 'avalanche' but there is 'snowball' in Q drops. What happens when the snow melts? Water, 'watch the water' indeed. 60 days puts us in the ballpark of September 2022 followed by 'red october' delta.
California Gov. Newsome going to tear down the 3rd largest dam in Northern California, too old, unsafe, etc. Haven't heard of the impact it's going to make on the state. or its residents. Just WOW???
Found an old photo of Lake Mead behind Hoover Dam in 2004. This is the first time I've tried catbox so I hope it works. https://files.catbox.moe/p8jmd9.jpg You can see the white is about 5-8 feet wide, this is the high water mark as it used to be.
edit: 2001, apparently
See my previous post about the water levels. See how close it is to not being able to get any at all. Have an image with it of when it was constructed, 20 years ago, and today
I was thinking, the dam goes across a canyon, which means the cross section of the lake perpendicular to the length is V-shaped. Thus when it was full, the surface area was large. Also there was more rain and runoff. The amount of water that could disappear without much notice was actually much larger than the amount which could disappear now, because it isn't like a straight-sided bathtub draining. Two feet off the top when the lake was full would be far more water than two feet starting from twenty feet down, because of the slanting sides. The lower it goes, the faster the remaining water goes. This could have been thought of sooner. However, after looking at maps of the watershed in Colorado and seeing how much bigger it was than I thought, I'm wondering about the water there. Has downstream usage grown that much? Is their snowfall greatly reduced, and if so, for how long?
Apparently they have not had a lot of snowfall. Not sure on the timeframe of that. Water usage is out of control, people trying to grow grass in a desert and having to water it every day for it to stay alive. Just doesn’t seem natural because of the rapid decline of the past 2 years though.
I'm with you on the water usage. I think it is just sheer numbers. The City of Phoenix has this optimistic page about how per capita use is down, but they obfuscate the total usage by saying there are 1.5 million people in Phoenix. https://www.phoenix.gov/waterservices/resourcesconservation/yourwater/historicaluse Yes, in the city limits, but we are surrounded by a lot of other little cities. There are 4 million people just in Maricopa County. You could take the City's per capita use and multiply that by about 4 (for the other counties drawing mainly from the Colorado) and have a better idea of the actual use. Agricultural use is mostly irrigation from the CAP. Their excess is dumped at the end of the line in the desert, where it is building up an aquifer, but it's coming from the river.
I also believe the less snowfall part, because we have had fewer storms too. It really is dry all over, just when everyone decided to move to a warm climate, and it isn't the result of a few planes spraying anything, no matter how much people want to believe in the butterfly effect. This covers hundreds of thousands of square miles. It might be related to a lot of commercial jets putting out their stuff though. It seems a tad cleaner and cooler now that there are noticeably fewer flights. It might also be related to the fact that these big cities like Phoenix and Las Vegas are heat islands, an effect no one knew about when the cities were being developed nor did they plan ways to reduce it. The result is that storms tend to wither and go around the populated areas and the cities get hotter and the residents want more swimming pools and iced tea. We have had two thunderstorms in the last two weeks that were the way I remember them being from 20 years or more ago. If we had them weekly like then it wouldn't be necessary to water the grass, which is mostly Bermuda grass and will survive anything.
I have seen some videos of the levels dropping. Alarming.
Californication...
Who would have thought that pumping all the water out of the lake and into another state would cause the lake to empty...
Has to be on the western slope. I think Aspen and the other ski paradises are east of the Continental Divide.
Actually Aspen is west of the Continental Divide.
So it is. We get our water from all that area, so if they get 15 feet, too bad.
No argument from me, heavy Libtard mountain towns Crested Butte, Steamboat, Telluride, Vail, Breckenridge etc. could care less if they were buried by snow ...
Most are on the western side fren.
You are right, it is further east than I thought.
Just tell Commiefornians to drink the ocean water.
Remove all the warning labels from plastic bags and watch what happens as water consumption
Allow the mentally ill to change their gender and kill themselves around age 35 and see what happens to water consumption