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California's Katrina is coming


Wired California's always been for dreamers. Dreams of gold brought the forty-niners. Easy seasons and expansive arable acreage brought farmers, dreaming of an agricultural paradise. Fame, natural beauty, and the hang-loose cultural mosaic have brought dreaming millions to the state where summer never seems to end. The summer dream has become a nightmare drought. But the years-long dry spell isn't what keeps engineers, economists, and state water planners awake at night. No, they worry about the network of levees at the crux of California's plumbing — a massive freshwater confluence called the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.READ MORE

 

[mn78psu83]

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California's Katrina is coming


Wired California's always been for dreamers. Dreams of gold brought the forty-niners. Easy seasons and expansive arable acreage brought farmers, dreaming of an agricultural paradise. Fame, natural beauty, and the hang-loose cultural mosaic have brought dreaming millions to the state where summer never seems to end. The summer dream has become a nightmare drought. But the years-long dry spell isn't what keeps engineers, economists, and state water planners awake at night. No, they worry about the network of levees at the crux of California's plumbing — a massive freshwater confluence called the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.READ MORE

“The US in general has a highly reactive stance relative to risk,” says Bea. Which is his way of saying that most of that money will go to plugging leaks as they are found. “If something floods, we pump it out and patch it, then we return to our enjoyable, productive lives. In essence we’re in this reactive process of fixing the last accident.”

What’s to be done? Bea says the best solution is “strategic withdrawal”: Depopulate the Delta, and route water utilities around it.

A full scale disaster is the only thing that would force some people to move from that delta.

 

[LafayetteBear]

At this point, flooding would be highly desirable. Bring it on...

 

[bmw199]

At this point, flooding would be highly desirable. Bring it on...

Be careful that's what Texas said too

 

[LafayetteBear]

Dude, it will take a whole lot of rain to recharge the groundwater tables here, much less saturate the ground. Yeah, a fair amount of water would simply run off, and there would be moderate to severe inconvenience (depending on how much rain we're talking about), but I'd prefer that to continuing to get zero rain (or snow). Everyone's lawn here is either dead or yellow as hell. I'll be damned if I'm gonna install a "rock garden."

 

[mn78psu83]

Dude, it will take a whole lot of rain to recharge the groundwater tables here, much less saturate the ground. Yeah, a fair amount of water would simply run off, and there would be moderate to severe inconvenience (depending on how much rain we're talking about), but I'd prefer that to continuing to get zero rain (or snow). Everyone's lawn here is either dead or yellow as hell. I'll be damned if I'm gonna install a "rock garden."

Xeriscaping is beautiful too.

 

[jim cummings]

Dude, it will take a whole lot of rain to recharge the groundwater tables here, much less saturate the ground. Yeah, a fair amount of water would simply run off, and there would be moderate to severe inconvenience (depending on how much rain we're talking about), but I'd prefer that to continuing to get zero rain (or snow). Everyone's lawn here is either dead or yellow as hell. I'll be damned if I'm gonna install a "rock garden."

You can always call sherwin Williams and have them come paint your lawn. Totally organic of course

 

[demlion]

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California's Katrina is coming


Wired California's always been for dreamers. Dreams of gold brought the forty-niners. Easy seasons and expansive arable acreage brought farmers, dreaming of an agricultural paradise. Fame, natural beauty, and the hang-loose cultural mosaic have brought dreaming millions to the state where summer never seems to end. The summer dream has become a nightmare drought. But the years-long dry spell isn't what keeps engineers, economists, and state water planners awake at night. No, they worry about the network of levees at the crux of California's plumbing — a massive freshwater confluence called the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.READ MORE

Seems like my whole life I have been hearing that California was going to crash, fail, burn, slide into the ocean, cancer up, mudslide and die of contagious/infectious disease, among other things.

I have visited a few times. Parts of it seems like New jersey with palm trees. I am finding it hard to continue to be as alarmed as I am led to believe I should be.

 

[joedirt47]

Seems like my whole life I have been hearing that California was going to crash, fail, burn, slide into the ocean, cancer up, mudslide and die of contagious/infectious disease, among other things.

I have visited a few times. Parts of it seems like New jersey with palm trees. I am finding it hard to continue to be as alarmed as I am led to believe I should be.

Tool's Aenema comes to mind.

 

[kijanalives]

Do you like vegetables? 70% of the country's produce is farmed in the Central Calley of CA. Farmers can't irrigate with the delta water, so they've begin drilling miles underground and depleting ancient aquifers just to keep some lettuce alive long enough to get to market.

Pretending this isn't a national concern b/c people have been talking about the fall of CA since you were born (maybe yesterday?) is sticking your head in the sand.

 

[Ct. Lion]

We build Oil and Natural Gas pipelines all over North America to move these products from production areas to refineries or storage facilities so why not build a freshwater pipeline. The production location would be Gary Indiana on southern Lake Michigan and within a few miles of the pumping station you could build the pipeline along the interstate Rt. 80 corridor all the way to Sacramento, Ca. in the Central Valley. At that termination point you would have a spider web of pipelines all up and down the Valley and out to the San Francisco area.
Even a 15 inch pipe with heavy duty pumping stations would move quite a bit of water out to California.
Got to think outside the box because this problem only gets worse.

 

[demlion]

Do you like vegetables? 70% of the country's produce is farmed in the Central Calley of CA. Farmers can't irrigate with the delta water, so they've begin drilling miles underground and depleting ancient aquifers just to keep some lettuce alive long enough to get to market.

Pretending this isn't a national concern b/c people have been talking about the fall of CA since you were born (maybe yesterday?) is sticking your head in the sand.

It may be a national concern, but there is not a damned thing I can do about it. I cant do a rain dance, and I cannot make those perfectly sensible mainstream americans who are no different from you and me fix their bullshit. I guess if you live there you had best get on the stick.

 

[NapaNit]

It may be a national concern, but there is not a damned thing I can do about it. I cant do a rain dance, and I cannot make those nutlogs fix their bullshit. I guess if you live there you had best get on the stick.

OK, I like you as a poster, but why the 'nutlog' shiat?

 

[demlion]

OK, I like you as a poster, but why the 'nutlog' shiat?

Alright, fair point. I take it back and edited the post accordingly.

 

[slwlion]

Do you like vegetables? 70% of the country's produce is farmed in the Central Calley of CA. Farmers can't irrigate with the delta water, so they've begin drilling miles underground and depleting ancient aquifers just to keep some lettuce alive long enough to get to market.

Pretending this isn't a national concern b/c people have been talking about the fall of CA since you were born (maybe yesterday?) is sticking your head in the sand.

Not to belittle a tragic situation but, I live in Florida and it does not affect me one iota..My veggies are always fresh and no shortage of rain. Btw, lettuce is something like 97% water, what a waste of a resource on something that has little to no nutritional value.

 

[kijanalives]

Not to belittle your post but your post was belittling.