This is the kind of initiative taking that gives me hope and inspires me. Thank you for being a healer of the lands and doing so with a remarkably humble demeanor for what strikes me as a rockstar move in the best direction! I am a generation removed from the farm, but nigh 1,000 acres are still managed by the family in central MO, makes me want to go chip in for a while, do my part a little. Thanks for that!
pumping water directly back into the ground requires a high level of filtering and monitoring, and incredibly high pressures, but if you have the surface area to do it, you can just flood a bunch of fields using a high VOLUME pump and let gravity do the rest.
We've been doing this for a while but it has just been in a severe drought for 30 years. It's private property so the state can force them to build stuff like this, it can incentivize it but it has to be up to the Farmers to want it to be done on their property. You are talking about refilling aquifers that were filled over millions of years first by Lake Corcoran then by Lake Tulare Buena Vista and Kern Lake.
An aquifer isn't a giant cavern below ground, it is water trapped in soil. If you try to jam a bunch of water into the ground at a high rate, you're going to displace soil, like if you took a firehose to a hillside.
Naw it isn't. No infrastructure exists to capture even an insignificant portion of that flooding. I'm betting drought state of emergency by July in CA.
@@htomerif yeah...by Sept at the latest...peopleare so misinformed that seems i hear daily how "the droughts over" Fact is they started 100 ueara ago by dividing up more water than the Colorodo has even then between States and Mexico (which gets almost none now) yet growth is still encouraged at all costs because our economy collapses without endless growth. An impossibility on a planet with finite reaources and an oit of control population all seeking more than anyone else
@@htomerif Whoosh. Hundreds of diversion projects are active. Tulare is one of them. So, back to "no infrastructure exists to capture even an insignificant......". AKA - you're half wrong. Get back to me in July to see if you're 0-2.
California has a 3 year reserves from having full reservoirs. After 3 years of draught the surplus is gone. Since 80% of the water is used in agriculture it is good to see farmers using the water wisely when they have a surplus. Water is like having money in the bank.
irrigation water mostly goes back to ground very little is used by the plants or evaporation. But it takes 1000 years to replace on foot of ground water. AND the ground is what filters the water why ground and spring water is clean.
That is one MONSTER pump. What voltage does it run on (I noticed the large transformer next to the control cabinet) and how many amps does it draw and how many horse power? I am glad to see SOMEONE finally taking this seriously and taking the first steps to capture some of this excess run off that would have flowed to the ocean.
Probably 480V 3 phase. The transformer has a bus duct which is a requirement with PG&E for 3,000-4,000 amps. Looks like the only thing at the site (found it on Google Earth & Maps). That looks like it's a pretty low head system. They could be doing it with 600-1000HP maybe. I worked for a contractor before and a customer used to pump 2500 gpm with 75hp pumps for drip irrigation (up to 160 acres but they had control valves). I think he said 17,000 gpm which is 6.8x times as much.
Please explain in simple terms? Are you taking excess water from X and folding fields to allow the water to seep into the ground? Or are you actually pumping the excess water into the ground?
Don Cameron sparked curiosity in 2010 when he began a multi-phase project intended to capture floodwater from the Kings River during rainy seasons. The effort, supported by state grants, unfolded as a grand experiment, as the diversified Fresno County grower flooded his permanent plantings-including pistachios and vineyards-to such an extent that they soon rested in several feet of water. To Cameron’s relief, those plantings survived relatively unscathed. As the water percolated down, the aquifer water table rose significantly, increasing nearly 40 feet in a single year.
They are spreading and percolating. Whatever doesn't evaporate will be pulled by gravity toward the center of the earth through the permeable soil until it hits a relatively impermeable substance(i.e. bedrock)
Agree give awards to those people ,live in the UK in the winter months watching the flood water just draining out to sea ,then putting out drought warnings in the summer. Perhaps areas that have an abundance surplus of flood water could be pumped to an aride region and creating more productive farm land
@@terryengland1880 The Dairy Farmers who moved their operations out to Nevada need to have the EPA come in to pump concrete into the 10,000+ foot deep wells. Those recently transplanted farmers are willing to kill off small communities who've been around for over 100 years because they don't care about what happens beyond the day they officially retire & move off to another states such as Florida. They'll slaughter their cows and leave their corporate farm structures to fall apart like those dead mining towns from the gold rush. Transplant southwest farmers are using the little precious ground water that took tens of thousands of years to build up in aquifers to export products to countries like China and Saudi Arabia. Those farmers gas light the country, they'll imply that if they're not allowed to export to china & the Saudis the water in the form of crops or animal feed then every day Americans would starve. What's most embarrassing about the farmers is that they hide their identities between LLCs within LLCs so that some retired fixed income widow who bought a house with her husband 40 years ago wouldn't be able know who they are after she has to abandon her home because her well dried up.
Has anybody thought of a enclosed archimedes screw pump. One end floating on a pontoon so water level changes don't effect it and zero loss because the whole tube turns like a trommel or cement truck. Very low horsepower needs for a significant amount of water compared to a centrifical pump. No need to pressurize the water to get it to move hal full up the pipe. Could probably build a large one using water slide secctions around a center support. I read that over half the electricity used in california is to move water around the state.
Ok.....you got the pump running, how about you show how you use the water to recharge the aquifer? This just shows it being pumped into a culvert, and then?
Don Cameron sparked curiosity in 2010 when he began a multi-phase project intended to capture floodwater from the Kings River during rainy seasons. The effort, supported by state grants, unfolded as a grand experiment, as the diversified Fresno County grower flooded his permanent plantings-including pistachios and vineyards-to such an extent that they soon rested in several feet of water. To Cameron’s relief, those plantings survived relatively unscathed. As the water percolated down, the aquifer water table rose significantly, increasing nearly 40 feet in a single year.
Amazing to see what 5 million in govt. money will do. Is this the first use of this unit? How about showing where the water ends up and how it recharges the aquifer. Who gets the water? How is distributed?
It’s great to see this happening. It would be useful to have better illustrations of what is happening - the video seems to suggest water is being pulled from the ground rather than injecting into the ground.
Don Cameron sparked curiosity in 2010 when he began a multi-phase project intended to capture floodwater from the Kings River during rainy seasons. The effort, supported by state grants, unfolded as a grand experiment, as the diversified Fresno County grower flooded his permanent plantings-including pistachios and vineyards-to such an extent that they soon rested in several feet of water. To Cameron’s relief, those plantings survived relatively unscathed. As the water percolated down, the aquifer water table rose significantly, increasing nearly 40 feet in a single year.
We have Leeves and Flood gates throughout the valley. Basically when it's a wet season like this they can open up the pumps that instead of pumping water out of the ground they are sending it back into the Aquifers below. The entire Central valley is a Drainage basin for all the Sierra snowpack. The entire central valley was Lake Corcoran which supplied California with an Incredible aquifer supply that we need to replenish.
I respect the intent - and maybe it's the right thing to do - but it's a damned shame that you have to draw that much energy in order to PUT BACK what has been unsustainably removed.
"With this project operating it's probably taking a lot of pressure off cities downstream...". You can't give any figures on how much storage this has or how much water is expected to actually make it back to the aquifer(s)? This should all be considered *excess* water and not allowed to be sold to over consumers like agriculture and golf courses at what I am sure will be reduced rates. An interconnecting system should be designed to shunt massive amounts of water around North America.
Monumental accomplishment. 90 days guess at 300 acre ft day. Saving downstream flooding, catching water, genius. Pump from your own wells at less cost than the crooks at water districts.
the sound of that pump starting was incredible!!
That was the sound of a HUGE demand charge added to the electric bill.
Excellent job . Patience pays. God be with you .
That moment, throwing the switch after a patient 11 year wait, was no doubt extremely gratifying.
I want to know the demand charge that was billed for pushing that button.
Thanks for the update!
nice to see projects like this...well done.
Groundwater recharge for the win. Thanks guys! Good work!
This is the kind of initiative taking that gives me hope and inspires me. Thank you for being a healer of the lands and doing so with a remarkably humble demeanor for what strikes me as a rockstar move in the best direction! I am a generation removed from the farm, but nigh 1,000 acres are still managed by the family in central MO, makes me want to go chip in for a while, do my part a little. Thanks for that!
What a beast of a pump! How cool was that startup sound!
What an incredible project. Thanks for sharing!
Wonderful. Thank you for all your hard work and money spent. thank you!
Glad it is up and running this year.
Perfect timing with the recent snowpack.
Extremely interesting. Thank you 👍🏼
You are a visionary! Congratulations!
This is History in the making . After the droughts and now the floods , nice to see the SHARING of water on this new project !
congrats and good job guys! Happy to see such a positive project being completed, and replenishing the aquifers is an essential task. Thank You!
Nice job guys!
Wow, congratulations!
Great job!
That thing looks like it's straight out of Star Wars, taking flood water and diverting it underground for a not so rainy year. Talk about a win-win.
Awesome. Nice job guys. Thank you.
I've wondered why water couldn't be pumped back into the ground. Nice to see that someone has been working on such things.
pumping water directly back into the ground requires a high level of filtering and monitoring, and incredibly high pressures, but if you have the surface area to do it, you can just flood a bunch of fields using a high VOLUME pump and let gravity do the rest.
We've been doing this for a while but it has just been in a severe drought for 30 years. It's private property so the state can force them to build stuff like this, it can incentivize it but it has to be up to the Farmers to want it to be done on their property. You are talking about refilling aquifers that were filled over millions of years first by Lake Corcoran then by Lake Tulare Buena Vista and Kern Lake.
An aquifer isn't a giant cavern below ground, it is water trapped in soil. If you try to jam a bunch of water into the ground at a high rate, you're going to displace soil, like if you took a firehose to a hillside.
@@LucidStew They don't force it in, they flood the fields and let seepage do the rest.
@@edsloan8535 this is what I was saying to the OP.
There are so many areas in the U.S that need this
This year's bounty of rain & snow is not a solution, it is an opportunity to get ready for the next drought.
Naw it isn't. No infrastructure exists to capture even an insignificant portion of that flooding. I'm betting drought state of emergency by July in CA.
@@htomerif yeah...by Sept at the latest...peopleare so misinformed that seems i hear daily how "the droughts over"
Fact is they started 100 ueara ago by dividing up more water than the Colorodo has even then between States and Mexico (which gets almost none now) yet growth is still encouraged at all costs because our economy collapses without endless growth. An impossibility on a planet with finite reaources and an oit of control population all seeking more than anyone else
@@htomerif Then why are the Tulare lake "residents" so wet?
@@jimmiller5600 Aw, man, you GOT ME BRO. I said "July" and... look at that, its July already oh wait no its still April learn to read.
@@htomerif Whoosh. Hundreds of diversion projects are active. Tulare is one of them. So, back to "no infrastructure exists to capture even an insignificant......". AKA - you're half wrong. Get back to me in July to see if you're 0-2.
Water conservation is key in your environment. Swales should be all over that land but the science angle on this issue is impressive.
Very impressive kit !
California has a 3 year reserves from having full reservoirs. After 3 years of draught the surplus is gone. Since 80% of the water is used in agriculture it is good to see farmers using the water wisely when they have a surplus. Water is like having money in the bank.
irrigation water mostly goes back to ground very little is used by the plants or evaporation. But it takes 1000 years to replace on foot of ground water. AND the ground is what filters the water why ground and spring water is clean.
This is the way to go .... save the flood flow in the earth, the biggest tank we have.
Its awesome that we're in the position where we have to start terraforming our own planet to make it viable for life.
That is one MONSTER pump. What voltage does it run on (I noticed the large transformer next to the control cabinet) and how many amps does it draw and how many horse power?
I am glad to see SOMEONE finally taking this seriously and taking the first steps to capture some of this excess run off that would have flowed to the ocean.
Large machinery like that is usually 3 phase, 480 volts.
@@dfirth224 I kinds figured so. BUT I have seen pumps running on much HIGHER voltages. I was just curious.
@@dfirth224maybe 4160
Looking at the size of the motor and gear, I'd say 4160v could be 13.2kv and probably 100amp.
Probably 480V 3 phase. The transformer has a bus duct which is a requirement with PG&E for 3,000-4,000 amps. Looks like the only thing at the site (found it on Google Earth & Maps). That looks like it's a pretty low head system. They could be doing it with 600-1000HP maybe. I worked for a contractor before and a customer used to pump 2500 gpm with 75hp pumps for drip irrigation (up to 160 acres but they had control valves). I think he said 17,000 gpm which is 6.8x times as much.
Long Overdue and needed in many parts of California.
Would appreciate a whiteboard explainer on this project.
Please explain in simple terms? Are you taking excess water from X and folding fields to allow the water to seep into the ground? Or are you actually pumping the excess water into the ground?
Don Cameron sparked curiosity in 2010 when he began a multi-phase project intended to capture floodwater from the Kings River during rainy seasons.
The effort, supported by state grants, unfolded as a grand experiment, as the diversified Fresno County grower flooded his permanent plantings-including pistachios and vineyards-to such an extent that they soon rested in several feet of water.
To Cameron’s relief, those plantings survived relatively unscathed. As the water percolated down, the aquifer water table rose significantly, increasing nearly 40 feet in a single year.
They are spreading and percolating. Whatever doesn't evaporate will be pulled by gravity toward the center of the earth through the permeable soil until it hits a relatively impermeable substance(i.e. bedrock)
@@blackhawk7r221 That isn't what he's doing
@@SaginawCareerComplex I do believe he is refilling the local aquifer with surface water.
@@blackhawk7r221 How do you think water normally gets into an aquifer bro? It seeps from the surface
The USDA & engineering corps should give out awards to people like this gentleman for being proactive like this.
They won't, its commiefonistan, they will lawsuit it to stop it, or make bs legislation to outlaw it. Just wait...........
Agree give awards to those people ,live in the UK in the winter months watching the flood water just draining out to sea ,then putting out drought warnings in the summer. Perhaps areas that have an abundance surplus of flood water could be pumped to an aride region and creating more productive farm land
@@terryengland1880 The Dairy Farmers who moved their operations out to Nevada need to have the EPA come in to pump concrete into the 10,000+ foot deep wells.
Those recently transplanted farmers are willing to kill off small communities who've been around for over 100 years because they don't care about what happens beyond the day they officially retire & move off to another states such as Florida.
They'll slaughter their cows and leave their corporate farm structures to fall apart like those dead mining towns from the gold rush.
Transplant southwest farmers are using the little precious ground water that took tens of thousands of years to build up in aquifers to export products to countries like China and Saudi Arabia.
Those farmers gas light the country, they'll imply that if they're not allowed to export to china & the Saudis the water in the form of crops or animal feed then every day Americans would starve.
What's most embarrassing about the farmers is that they hide their identities between LLCs within LLCs so that some retired fixed income widow who bought a house with her husband 40 years ago wouldn't be able know who they are after she has to abandon her home because her well dried up.
Wondering what is the HP of that pump? And what brand VFD is controlling it?
we had some a little smaller than that and the were 400hp.but they use a lot of electric
Is there any kind of basic silt filter like straw or sand or similar or just pumping it into the ground?
Has anybody thought of a enclosed archimedes screw pump. One end floating on a pontoon so water level changes don't effect it and zero loss because the whole tube turns like a trommel or cement truck. Very low horsepower needs for a significant amount of water compared to a centrifical pump. No need to pressurize the water to get it to move hal full up the pipe. Could probably build a large one using water slide secctions around a center support. I read that over half the electricity used in california is to move water around the state.
Usually the power goes off during rainstorms; got a backup?
Ed c
Where is it going? Map?
May we get an update? How many acre feet did the project recharge the groundwater? Thanks
We estimate about 19,000 acre feet was recharged. An acre feet equals about 326,000 gallons.
Where is that pump getting energy from to power that thing?
The grid. It's about 19 miles southwest of downtown Fresno, CA.
tesla power wall and commiefornistan solar panels
0:36 for the glorious sounding motor start
Ok.....you got the pump running, how about you show how you use the water to recharge the aquifer? This just shows it being pumped into a culvert, and then?
Probably a bypass for pressure regulation and help cooling the pump motor.
There's a pdf in the notes -- www.mcmullinarea.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/20220324-MAGSA-Expansion-Project-Brief_FINAL.pdf
They do not pump it into the ground, it percolates into the ground. Especially in sandy soils.
Don Cameron sparked curiosity in 2010 when he began a multi-phase project intended to capture floodwater from the Kings River during rainy seasons.
The effort, supported by state grants, unfolded as a grand experiment, as the diversified Fresno County grower flooded his permanent plantings-including pistachios and vineyards-to such an extent that they soon rested in several feet of water.
To Cameron’s relief, those plantings survived relatively unscathed. As the water percolated down, the aquifer water table rose significantly, increasing nearly 40 feet in a single year.
They spread it out on 5,000 acres of farmland and allow it to percolate into the ground.
Amazing to see what 5 million in govt. money will do. Is this the first use of this unit? How about showing where the water ends up and how it recharges the aquifer. Who gets the water? How is distributed?
Simple, farmers just flood their fields. Water soaks into the ground. This cannot be done everywhere. Doesn't work with hardpan or clay soils.
It’s great to see this happening. It would be useful to have better illustrations of what is happening - the video seems to suggest water is being pulled from the ground rather than injecting into the ground.
Don Cameron sparked curiosity in 2010 when he began a multi-phase project intended to capture floodwater from the Kings River during rainy seasons.
The effort, supported by state grants, unfolded as a grand experiment, as the diversified Fresno County grower flooded his permanent plantings-including pistachios and vineyards-to such an extent that they soon rested in several feet of water.
To Cameron’s relief, those plantings survived relatively unscathed. As the water percolated down, the aquifer water table rose significantly, increasing nearly 40 feet in a single year.
We have Leeves and Flood gates throughout the valley. Basically when it's a wet season like this they can open up the pumps that instead of pumping water out of the ground they are sending it back into the Aquifers below. The entire Central valley is a Drainage basin for all the Sierra snowpack. The entire central valley was Lake Corcoran which supplied California with an Incredible aquifer supply that we need to replenish.
THIS FLOODS THE LAND area and SOAKS into the ground naturally, NOT INJECTED into the ground, naturally filtering the water.
That's easy, I could have done that. turn the #7 button, then push the #8 button. what's the big deal?
drill holes in the river bottoms then the water will flow in the ground fast no pump needed
We have liftoff!
I'm sure this is killing millions of smelt eggs... to arms fellow environmentalists!!!
I respect the intent - and maybe it's the right thing to do - but it's a damned shame that you have to draw that much energy in order to PUT BACK what has been unsustainably removed.
Very PROUD of you farmers for trying something different, and I hope you still give Sacramento the middle finger 🖕 for years of ripping you off!!
This was done in partnership with Sacramento but go off on your little narrative, bro
"With this project operating it's probably taking a lot of pressure off cities downstream...". You can't give any figures on how much storage this has or how much water is expected to actually make it back to the aquifer(s)? This should all be considered *excess* water and not allowed to be sold to over consumers like agriculture and golf courses at what I am sure will be reduced rates. An interconnecting system should be designed to shunt massive amounts of water around North America.
300 acre foot a day.
If you mix Skittles and drank you get free electricity.
Big deal.
Shame with all the sun your ot power the pumps with solar energy
Which they would build on top of the fields. There's solar out there in various areas.
Monumental accomplishment. 90 days guess at 300 acre ft day. Saving downstream flooding, catching water, genius. Pump from your own wells at less cost than the crooks at water districts.
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