Thread: 1,200 square mile sinkhole still growing

11/17/13

http://www.alipac.us/f19/la-more-tha...nkhole-292310/
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Louisiana 25-acre sinkhole brings mini-earthquakes, explosion fears

Now brown wants to make water tunnels?

Originally Posted by Newmexican

Now brown wants to make water tunnels?

There is extra water up north.
The people in the southern part of the state need the water.
The only way to get it to them is to put tunnels for it to go through.

California State Water Project

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Map showing major features of the project (SWP reservoirs in blue, SWP/CVP reservoirs in dark blue, and unbuilt/proposed facilities in gray)
General statistics
Begun	1960
Storage dams	10
Additional dams	4 (reregulation) 4 (hydroelectric) 2 (flood control) 1 (mitigation/conservation)
Power plants	5 conventional 3 pumped-storage
Canals	701.5 miles (1,129.0 km)
Operations
Storage capacity	5,746,790 acre feet (7.08856×109 m3)
Annual water yield	2,400,000 acre feet (3.0×109 m3)[1]
Land irrigated	750,000 acres (300,000 ha)
Power plant capacity	2,991.7 MW
Annual generation	6500 GWh
Annual consumption	11500 GWh
Constituencies served	Greater Los Angeles Area Greater San Diego Inland Empire San Francisco Bay Area North Bay Santa Clara Valley South Bay Central Coast San Joaquin Valley
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The California State Water Project, commonly known as the SWP, is a state water management project in the U.S. state of California under the supervision of the California Department of Water Resources.

The SWP is one of the largest publicly built and operated, water and power development and conveyance systems in the world, providing drinking water for more than 23 million people and generating an average of 6500 GWh of hydroelectricity annually. However, as it is the largest single consumer of power in the state itself, it has a net usage of 5100 GWh.^[2]

The SWP collects water from rivers in Northern California and redistributes it to the water-scarce but populous south through a network of aqueducts, pumping stations and power plants.

About 70% of the water provided by the project is used for urban areas and industry in Southern Californiaand the San Francisco Bay Area, and 30% is used for irrigation in the Central Valley.^[3]

To reach Southern California, the water must be pumped 2,000 feet (610 m) over the Tehachapi Mountains – the highest single water lift in the world.^[4]

The SWP shares many facilities with the federal Central Valley Project (CVP), which primarily serves agricultural users. Water can be interchanged between SWP and CVP canals as needed to meet peak requirements for project constituents.

The SWP provides estimated annual benefits of $400 billion to California's economy.^[5]

Since its inception in 1960, the SWP has required the construction of 21 dams and more than 700 miles (1,100 km) of canals, pipelines and tunnels,^[6] although these constitute only a fraction of the facilities originally proposed. As a result, the project has only delivered an average of 2.4 million acre feet (3.0 km³) annually, as compared to total entitlements of 4.23 million acre feet (5.22 km³).

Environmental concerns caused by the dry-season removal of water from the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta, a sensitive estuary region, have often led to further reductions in water delivery. Work continues today to expand the SWP's water delivery capacity while finding solutions for the environmental impacts of water diversion.

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• 1 History
• 2 Project description
  
  • 2.1 Feather River facilities
  • 2.2 Delta facilities
  • 2.3 California Aqueduct
    
    • 2.3.1 Coastal Branch
    • 2.3.2 West Branch
    • 2.3.3 East Branch
  
  
• 3 Proposed and unbuilt features
  
  • 3.1 North Coast diversions
  • 3.2 Peripheral Canal
  • 3.3 Sites Reservoir
  • 3.4 Los Banos Grandes
  
  
• 4 Controversy and modern issues
• 5 Statistics
  
  • 5.1 Dams and reservoirs
  • 5.2 Aqueducts
  • 5.3 Pump plants
  • 5.4 Powerplants
  
  
• 6 See also
• 7 References
• 8 Works cited
• 9 Further reading
• 10 External links

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Califo..._Water_Project

8 State rural areas at risk as water levels drop in massive aquifer

I wonder what Las Vegas will do. Water levels very low at Hoover Dam. Massive population and we keep importing more foreigners!

Originally Posted by Beezer

I wonder what Las Vegas will do. Water levels very low at Hoover Dam. Massive population and we keep importing more foreigners!

Yes, it's been ten years, but when we were visiting out there, being able to see how far the water level had dropped there was a little frightening.

Maybe it's time to say we do not have the resources for more people. Actually, that was the mantra of the government/media - the propaganda machine - during the 70's to convince Americans to stop having children. Now they tell us we need the illegals because the American birthrate is so low.

That's just another example of government speak that sounded so good - many conservatives fell for it. People with more than 2.1 children were actually accosted in public and ridiculed for having more than the 'allotted' children.

Maybe, also, it's time to say maybe people don't need all the huge lawns and landscaping that takes so much water. Maybe Hollywood doesn't need mansions with 10 acre lawns.

We visited with some people in that area that were very environmentally caring people - and I believe they were sincere and caring. They however, lived in a gated community that had acres and acres of common area that looked positively tropical. Their own house had a huge lawn that felt like plush carpet, a large swimming pool. Meandering through the area was an 18 hole golf course, very green. Keep in mind, this is a desert.

Do we need to use water to irrigate crops that will be exported?

Instead of talking about these common sense things, we hear lots of admonition about how you should turn off the water while brushing your teeth and how bottled water is depleting the aquifer.