Comments on: Rep. Denham trumps Sen. Feinstein’s call for more water storage

By: Wayne Lusvardi

Wayne Lusvardi — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 16:32:32 +0000

There is an interesting article in this week’s Pasadena Star News about Morris Dam in the Angelus National Forest above San Gabriel Valley in the Los Angeles area. The dam will silted up and could not spill enough water to recharge aquifers and settlement basins below in the valley. The basin of the dam was dredged and a newer hydraulic spillway was installed that now allows more spillage. I assume that such an engineering fix might be possible on the New Melones Dam as well. The article in the Pasadena Star News is: “Morris Dam Upgrades Improve L.A. County’s Water Preservation, Management Efforts,” July 24, 2013.

By: Wayne Lusvardi

Wayne Lusvardi — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 16:22:49 +0000

Reply to Itachee

Thank you for your intelligent comment.

I believe what we’re talking about is just re-allocating existing Melones Lake water so that 100,000 acre feet can be used for farming instead of spilled and allowed to flow to the ocean or evaporate. Please correct me if I am in error.

By: Itachee

Itachee — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 12:45:58 +0000

I have worked on and studied CVP operations and issues for 35 years. What most people don’t realize about New M is that USBR while doing its design and yield studies grossly over estimated the average runoff on the Stanislaus River. Put another way New M is much larger, about 35% actually, than is necessary for the watershed runoff. That, coupled with downstream environmental demands, is precisely why New M rarely ever fills.

By: New California Dams NOT Needed: Feds Need to Fill Up New Melones Dam—Fish Get the Water/Not People

Thu, 25 Jul 2013 02:33:37 +0000

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By: Bill - San Jose

Bill - San Jose — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 02:16:36 +0000

30 new reservoirs / dams with hydro-electric. Problems solved.

Two senators / one stone.

By: Linda

Linda — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 00:31:38 +0000

She calls for more storage for water and all the while they are working night and day to remove the dams on the Klamath River in northern California. They are doing under the guise of saving fish. The fish they are want to save is a non native fish to the Klamath River system
. Some relative must have interest in building water storage in the southern part of the state. That is how Feinstein, Boxer and Pelosi work. They feather their own nest.