On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 20:21:57 -0700, pyotr filipivich
wrote:

Larry Jaques on Sat, 21 Mar 2015
06:23:01 -0700 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floods_in_California

With floods that predictable, my question is: "Why hasn't anyone built
100+ reservoirs to catch it all every 14-24 years?" Hmm...

We have a ****load of reservoirs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._in_California

Some 1400 of them

But not nearly enough, as is well evident.

Part of the problem is that over the last several decades, while
the population has been increasing, from immigration and "natural
increase" - there has been no co-responding increase in storage
capacity. Something about protecting the environment, and stopping
all those nasty dam building project.
Not saying raising the height of some of the dams would be a cure
all, but, increasing the capacity of the dams means that less water
has to be sent over the spillway to make way for the spring floods.

We've had our dams removed recently (they were damaging the salmon
swimming upstream) but now the salmon are damaging themselves in the
riffles due to low water levels. I guess our AGWK is all to blame,
too.

Hey, maybe it was the sharp rocks in the riffles which hurt the salmon
in the first place. Nah, had to be the nasty man-made dams, huh?
deep sigh

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