I'm Afraid We'll Be Needing Water in 4 Years. Reservoir Water Release.

What is happening with Lake Mead, and Lake Powell?

Just read that Hoover Dam is 87 years old this month.
 

They need extra room in the reservoir to contain excessive run off conditions. So they have to spill some to be ready for emergencies. It's too bad they can't save every drop. They could with bigger reservoirs, and someone may be considering that as we speak.
 
It looks like they are preparing for all the melting snow to refill the lake. If they don't prepare for the melt, they will likely have some major flooding to cope with. The Most important thing for the desert SW is how much snow the Colorado Rockies got this Winter, and how much of that will find it's way to Lake Powell and Lake Mead. Those two lakes are the "lifeline" to our SW States.
 
JustDave said:
They need extra room in the reservoir to contain excessive run off conditions. So they have to spill some to be ready for emergencies. It's too bad they can't save every drop. They could with bigger reservoirs, and someone may be considering that as we speak.
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The Army Corps of Engineers has so many divisions, and probably now involved mostly with military activities. ??
 
@JustDave and @Don M. That is my understanding. It's become warmer and raining where we had snow 2 weeks ago or less. So that's going to cause a lot of run off. The gulch behind my workplace isn't full but has plenty of flowing water.

I just wish we could save this water, because I'm already worried about next years rain and the year after that and.....
 
If you Google 1983 and lower Colorado river flooding, you will see what happened when they didn’t make room for the snowmelt. The lower part of the river got flooded because they had to let out too much water at once. Parker Arizona was especially hurt by this. I remember it and saw it in person. Somebody high up in the government got fired and I think another may of had to take “early retirement”. Some much for trying to “save” the water.
 
Just heard there are blocks of ice floating down the river that leads to the Oroville Dam. We're supposed to be safe from floods where we are but a flood watch came over the tv a little earlier for the area where my dear nephew & niece-in-law live.
 
After the large January storms, politically controlled state water officials and their news media partners instead of celebrating how great it was to put a big dent in the drought across the state, couldn't stop blabbering "Droughts not over, Droughts not over, Droughts not over" about how it would take a few years for storage to get back to normal even with more storms. What their agenda really was about was deterring pinheads that would have otherwise returned to using water inefficiently, especially in Southern California watering lawns, golf course, etc, and giant agribusiness corporations in desert like areas of the western San Joaquin Valley that have been trying for decades to steal more of our northern California water with a Delta "Peripheral Canal". So all the endless multi decades of grotesque real estate growth and development down south in LALA Land can continue.

When Miss Pacific decides to peeeee... Shows how wrong they were. Water has to be let out lest possible AR storms over the next month cause potential flooding downstream. The fact that they have to let water out just shows again how little one can trust news media and politicians.
 
Well we in az will be dealing with this drought for years…depleated aquifers, reduced Colorado river allocations and increased populations are just a few of the pressures. That topped with inadequate and poorly located storage will make for lean water times in the years going forward. Our state has just this administration acknowledged the massive problem we face…
 
Muskrat said:
Well we in az will be dealing with this drought for years…depleated aquifers, reduced Colorado river allocations and increased populations are just a few of the pressures. That topped with inadequate and poorly located storage will make for lean water times in the years going forward. Our state has just this administration acknowledged the massive problem we face…
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Meanwhile, SRP is releasing water in the revivors so there is flooding on the streets that don't have a bridge over the normally dry Salt River. I guess it all goes into the groundwater but seems like a waste.
 
Muskrat said:
Well we in az will be dealing with this drought for years…depleated aquifers, reduced Colorado river allocations and increased populations are just a few of the pressures. That topped with inadequate and poorly located storage will make for lean water times in the years going forward. Our state has just this administration acknowledged the massive problem we face…
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Do you feel like people try and conserve water? I'm a miser with water. I do wash my hands, do laundry. My stacking washing machine has increments and I watch it as it fills and I stop it when I feel the level is adequate. I get wet in the shower, clean, wash my hair then turn the water back on. My plants on the patio are watered with used water, like the cat's water.

I've seen people at work blast the sink to rinse out some plastic container or cup when I'd just wipe it out or use a drizzle of water. It's going to be washed again anyway.
 

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