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From: Lance (Water Resources Research)
Date: 02 Jun 2003
Time: 21:23:53
Remote Name: 66.82.9.46
Very interesting issues abound the good amount of snow pack this year in the West. We are talking about the Rockies Westward. The Sierra Nevadas, Cascades, Montana, ID Mountain Ranges Etc. These rivers below the snow packed mountains are over running with water. May was very warm and much of the snow melted and it is headed down river and flooding many areas. As the flooded rivers over flow the down trees near the shores or on islands made in the middle of the river over time. These trees hang-up on smaller or narrower portions of the river and on bridges and overflow the river because the fast moving water has no where to go and builds up quickly and floods farms and fields. Without retention basins to collect all this fast melting snow the water rushes down and is wasted thus the drought will continue and the snow pack will be wasted. Luckily places like Lake Powell can retain the water down stream and it is expected to be filled up to 60% of average from this flow, just in time as at the beginning of May it was only 18% of normal. But still 60% is not enough but it as if a god had answered the prayers of many of those in the know of the serious nature of this problem of water supply. In Las Vegas we have already discussed the growth, they are buil;ding mopre golf courses and lawns at homes and realize that 40% of this water is used outside the home, 10% at golf courses accounting for 50% of the water of the 2 million Las Vegas area inhabitants; http://www.headwatersnews.org/stories/redirect.php?id=8960 ----- In AZ the Governor and industry, farmers, developers are worried that if growth is slowed then the economy may not recover properly currently AZ especially Tucson and PHX are showing very good economic signs which we have previously discussed here on this site; AZ on the rise as predicted. http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2003/06/02/daily11.html?f=et73 ----- This from the insiders of the issue there; TASK FORCE WILL DRAW UP STATEWIDE DROUGHT PLAN - Arizona's Drought Task Force is expected to draw up plans to help communities deal with droughts, map out water sources to fight fires and develop a statewide plan to deal with water emergencies within the next year. http://regulus.azstarnet.com/hourlyupdate/nightnews_story.php?id=15 ------- All these issues have been discussed here on this web site. Another water study plan stated this; Record breaking high temperatures have persisted over Colorado in the latter part of May. This very warm weather has resulted in substantial late May snowmelt and runoff. Some streamflow gages are recording record high flows for this time of year. Even though river flows are quite high in the basin right now, drought conditions continue in the Colorado River Basin. River flows will likely drop dramatically in mid-June. Total unregulated inflow to Lake Powell for water year 2003 will likely be about 60 percent of average, according to the Bureau of Reclamation. ------ As we had recently seen for ourselves it appears that the BUSH Plan to build catch basins for the water is similar to the BUSH Brother's plan in FL where Jeb says lets build retention basins to catch the Hurricane season storms to keep the Everglades watered during non-peak seasons where the population explosions in some areas need the water and drain too much, this along with the Tampa De-salination plan seems to be a good water resources management system for all seasons and times of drought. Denver and many surrounding areas and rural areas in WY, MT, NE, CO, NM etc. are in serious times and this snow melt is coming too fast to help as much as it could. These flooding issues also hurt quality of water as they move into rural areas and flood out barns and other places which store fuel, oil and etc, dumping many times 1000's of gallons of fuel and/or oil into the rivers leading down stream. This unintentional pollution could be stopped with proper farming of trees along the banks when large snow melts are coming which will like beavers dam up the flow of water causing flooding. Logger might take these trees and use them for building and fire wood for winter later on. Also in conjunction with proper management of water through retention basins, we might be able to solve all the issues of rural water needs which inevitably will fight urban areas with more clout for thier water causing hardships for farmers and small communities throughout these regions. Too many layers of government, too many court cases from Sierra Club, too many committee meetings spending hours and hours putting into their minutes what could have been accomplished in minutes. We submit to you that we have not learned from the past and the linear decision making is killing the possiblility of learning from our mistakes. If these issues were so important yesterday then surely the problems of today would have been eliminated istead of study upon study signifying nothing and here we are exactly where we were yesterday over and over and over again and again. For such a dominant and cognitive conscience being we sure are dumb aren't we? Don't answer that, but it would behoove some of us to get on the ball and do something besides talking about it. We have these reoccuring problems and allow them to keep getting worse eash time, yet do nothing about them. Why? It is rather obvious that we need to understand the water flows and deal with them in a way that makes sense for the human species long term. The idea of water acquifers, catch basins, and control of flow makes sense, but by the time they are complete they will not be needed. Thus all these debates and good intentions are for not. And we will not do anything until crisis looms again and then it will be finger pointing, politics and BS all over again. Maybe someone should do something, just do it. Build the basins in CO, NM, Rural parts of MT, be safe play it smart. Also Start acquiring property in LA for a de-salination plant and over run wetlands to do it if necessary, LA has a hispanic population which procreates 3 times faster than any other sector of our self segragating population. LA will need the water and their will be none to give as San Bernadino Grows, PHX, Las Vegas grow. There is only so much flow and either we control and increase flow or will be in a bad situation later, each time such predicaments raise their heads we enter times ans eras of extreme strife and economic calamities for no reason. If a man lives 90 years and happens ot live int he boom and bust times making his way and can never attain the carrot of happiness, then he will die without ever attaining his goals, sending his kids to college or having the ability to help others. When flows of capital, currency, water, energy are dirupted we all suffer. If a man in Houston lives through 3 boom and bust times. He will have built up wealth and lost it three times, with nothing to show for it except the life experience of hard knocks. This is an unecessary lesson which makes men cynical and frustrated and thus they pass on their learned experiences and knowledge of a hard life to offsprings and therefore the cycle of pessimism is never boken. All because of the inability to control the simpliest of flows and frequencies which keep repeating themselves over and over and over again throughout the recorded period of time known to modern societies. It feels as if we are all brain dead with no new thought, leading by immitation and mimicing those who mimic the past in some sort of Matrix Movie part V. Cerainly we are smart enough to fix these issues now, not in another decade and certainly we are strong enough to not fight over the means and just do it. The wealth transfer and struggle of mankind even in this country the greatest country in the world we see we are not immune to false realities and fear tactics of those who block common sense. We have had these issues of drought and issues of water problems for years and years and here we are today with all the same problems as before. How would a guy who washes cars be worthy of your ear? ------ http://www.carwashguys.com/051402_1.shtml ----- http://www.carwashguys.com/fireseason.shtml ------ http://www.carwashguys.com/082902_2.shtml ------ http://www.carwashguys.com/082602_1.shtml ----- http://www.carwashguys.com/solution.pdf ----- http://www.carwashguys.com/0021303_2.shtml ------ http://www.carwashguys.com/073102_6.shtml ------ http://www.carwashguys.com/0111902_3.shtml ------ http://www.parthe.net/_cwg0802/00000007.htm ---- http://www.parthe.net/_cwg1201/0000009b.htm ------ http://www.parthe.net/_cwg1201/0000009f.htm ------- http://www.parthe.net/_cwg0802/00000018.htm ------- http://www.parthe.net/_cwg0802/0000004a.htm ----- http://www.parthe.net/_cwg0802/0000002e.htm ------ http://www.parthe.net/_cwg0802/00000060.htm ----- http://www.parthe.net/_cwg0602/00000008.htm ----- http://www.parthe.net/_cwg1201/00000098.htm ------ http://www.parthe.net/_cwg900/000002b4.htm ------ http://www.parthe.net/_cwg1202/00000033.htm ----- http://www.parthe.net/_cwg1202/0000002c.htm ----- http://www.parthe.net/_cwg0802/0000003f.htm ------- http://www.parthe.net/_cwg0602/00000033.htm ------ http://www.parthe.net/_cwg0602/0000000f.htm ----- http://www.parthe.net/_cwg0802/0000003e.htm ----- http://www.parthe.net/_cwg0802/0000006d.htm ------ http://www.parthe.net/_cwg1201/00000079.htm ------ http://www.parthe.net/_cwg0802/00000024.htm ----- http://www.parthe.net/_cwg0602/0000004b.htm ------- http://www.parthe.net/_cwg1201/00000068.htm ------ This is merely a partial list of what we have been reviewing for the past three years and there are at least 30 more items of worthy note find them here: ---- http://www.google.com/search?q=site:parthe.net+droughts&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=0 ----- I sure hope someone or some group of people out there finds this information and has the balls to change the flow patterns for the betterment of mankind. Life is too short to relive the stupidity of the past. Let's fix the problem permanently. Then we can all clean our cars; http://www.carwashguys.com
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