The infrastructure is insufficient. Even with all the other lakes full, just one or two bad years and we're right back where we started. Given that the we're told to expect greater swings in weather going forward, we should have a system that works on a 5 or even 10 year basis instead of 1-2 years. All the full reservoirs have so much water they're basically letting it run into the ocean. It would be great if we had more intermediary storage facilities or even ways to transfer water between basins (for Trinity it will be expensive since it's so high up but it can also function as pumped storage as well).
Actually that would be interesting.. to do pumped storage between Trinity and Shasta. Just making a rough guess from a map, they're about 20 miles apart. That would require a very big tunnel though.
Hyena J "Basically letting it run into the ocean?" California farmers and cities already use up over 50% of CA's surface water. And you propose trapping more? So more CA rice and nuts can be exported?
What we really need to do is stop producing so much ag products for export. California should predominantly feed Californians. Especially because the wealth generated from ag exports is not distributed in an ethical manner amongst those who work to produce it.
I had a houseboat on Trinity years ago. After years of low water levels, I went to the command authority controlling water level, which was operating under the control of the Native Indian tribe of coastal Northern California, asking about chronic low water levels. I was told that the purpose pf the lake wasn't for 'my enjoyment', it was to regulate outflow. She said the lake 'would never be full again'. I sold my houseboat (at a loss) and have never been back. The natives now have plenty of flow to maintain their fisheries, and the bureaucrat's prediction has been accurate.
It's the same with Folsom. People were crying about much of the early releases this year. People said it should be filled up first. Folsom will refill over three times this year. It's an important part of the flood control system. Folsom would over fill to flow without any control and that's a bad situation for many people downstream.
You are CORRECT. People like to casually call San Francisco County NORTHERN " California. It is NOT. Basically, Santa Cruz County is about the Midpoint of the California Coastline; and San Francisco County is only 70 - 75 Miles North of it. San Francisco is actually CENTRAL COASTAL California. San Luis Obispo is considered CENTRAL Coastal California, right ? Well, the Distance between SLO and the Mexican Border is LESS than the distance between San Francisco and the OREGON Border, therefore San Francisco County MUST also be CENTRAL Coastal California. ( It may be the Northern PART of CENTRAL Coastal California; but it is STILL CENTRAL Coastal California ! ) Humboldt, Chico, Sacramento, Redding, Shasta : These ARE Northern California; San Francisco County is NOT.
You are CORRECT. People like to casually call San Francisco County NORTHERN " California. It is NOT. Basically, Santa Cruz County is about the Midpoint of the California Coastline; and San Francisco County is only 70 - 75 Miles North of it. San Francisco is actually CENTRAL COASTAL California. San Luis Obispo is considered CENTRAL Coastal California, right ? Well, the Distance between SLO and the Mexican Border is LESS than the distance between San Francisco and the OREGON Border, therefore San Francisco County MUST also be CENTRAL Coastal California. ( It may be the Northern PART of CENTRAL Coastal California; but it is STILL CENTRAL Coastal California ! ) Humboldt, Chico, Sacramento, Redding, Shasta : These ARE Northern California; San Francisco County is NOT.
@@vids595 You are CORRECT. San Francisco, which is about just 70 miles North of Santa Cruz County is ACTUALLY CENTRAL Coastal California. If you look at the Map 🗺️ of CALIFORNIA, Santa Cruz County is basically the Midpoint of the Coast of CALIFORNIA. So, by WARPED Logic, IF San Francisco is "Northern" California , then Carmel, which is South of the Midpoint, MUST be "Southern" California ! San Francisco County is NOT 🚫 "Northern" California; it IS CENTRAL Coastal California.
They released EARLY large volumes is the tragic error and was a mistake. "We just released the water early" isn't going to fill it up later. This could end up very tragic in a few years.
That NE corner of California had a good winter (like the report said - 120% of normal), but the two to three times normal snowfall happened in the Sierra Nevada (plus the San Gabriel/San Bernardino ranges in SoCal).
There are three huge tunnels that funnel water to where it should NOT be going and that is to Whiskeytown Lake that is in the Sacramento River Basin. Pull your heads out.
Whiskeytown was created to provide more water for central valley farmers. Like rice and nut growers, where 80% is exported overseas. This makes no sense.
In addition to maintaining the riparian habitat for wildlife there are plenty of businesses downstream that need the river to be flowing, just like the businesses at the lake want it full. You can't please everyone all the time.
The water had to be released from Trinity to prepare for the snow pack to melt which if it is anything like the Sierras then the Trinity Lake will be full in a couple months.
Omg a bumper year after a long drought and you drain off the snow melt.Sounds like you should work for Anheiser Busch with your forward thinking skills..
I suspect the water managers failed to consider a scenario of the extreme low level of the lake when they crafted and implemented the Trinity River Recovery Plan that compelled the excessive releases. Their otherwise reasonable plan fell short when they failed to be nimble enough to temporarily adjust the release plan and allow the lake to recover a bit more. However, unlike Shasta, Trinity Lake is primarily fed by snow melt and there is plenty of that. So we will soon see how well their water math & recovery pans out. Hopefully, there will be a decent lake level soon and no so much regret.
The level "to come" was a question that was conspicuously absent in this report. Someone has the data to state what the reservoir should be sitting at once the melt is done for the year.
They keep trying supplement cold water in the Trinity to make up for the lack of water in the lower Klamath IMO. The alps still have a lot of snow to melt yet
Obviously these idiots at Trinity shouldn't have released ANY water during the winter deluge since it fills up a lot slower than other reservoirs. So, their loss 🙄
They released all the water from the lake to help the fish in the river but the river will run dry in the summer now because there is not going to be any cold water left in the lake. How is that supposed to help the fish?
Climate change. Nothing to do with management plans. California and the west coast of the U.S. is going to get a lot dryer than it used to be and since carbon emissions haven't been reduced by any significant amount, it's not going to get any better. The record snowfalls and rain this year are a temporary reprieve. Trinity lake as it is now... is northern California's future. Empty lakes and dry rivers.
The purpose of reservoirs is to save and manage fresh water for use by population centers. That is who pays for the reservoirs. The people who use the reservoirs for recreation are getting extra government benefits. They aren't people with a stake who need to be serviced. The reservoir in the center of the community I lived in didn't even allow power boats, just sailboats. When the nearby city needs water they drain the reservoir to nothing. While scary, we didn't bellyache about it.
So we do have a bunch of linking as far as the canal system goes, and some of the reservoirs are balanced that way. California's water management system is already the largest in the world. Unfortunately Trinity is one of the northern most lakes and is in large mountain ranges. The volume of water to move is more than just using a water pipe between them. For reference, the canals are usually 100ft wide and anywhere from 15-30ft deep.
Don't trust the water bureau!!! They sold the water to other districts where they can make more money or protect the elites!!! Watch them closely over the next months and document, document, document with your lawyers!!!
THIS is what is wrong with Californias water management ..... the state has done NOTHING to address these problems except to mandate conserving at the tap
@@Skeedabo my comment had NOTHING to do with local water districts draining the water...did it? Go back and re read what I typed......California blinds itself to other solutions for water storage in the name of the tree hugging liberal diphead acquiescence
This is an artificial lake to begin with some years it won’t be full, it’s unnaturally large and the local environment isn’t going to always be able to fill it.
Lake Trinity is now at 58%. Great fishing Lake with the House Boats we used to rent. I wish they would get this Lake up again!!! This is the 3rd largest reservoir in California and they wrecked it!
This type of reporting leaves more questions. What about the fish? Where does that water out of the dam go? ... to the ocean or to the Sac basin? Why does the level of the water matter? If I want to rent a boat, it just means a smaller lake. At least I'm on the water, isn't that they main thing? No mention of a generator on that dam. Why does it matter?
This is called P_ss Poor Management. The manager said its a learn as you go situation. Trinity lake has been around for a long time, I guess they have not learn a thing in that time.
This report has been brought to you buy the Almond Grower's Association which needs to continue pumping ground water to sell on the open market because they actually have nothing to do with almonds anymore.
Reservoir design capacity too large for watershed output potential? Please clarify the amount of this season's total precipitation. Compare the ratio with others. In-depth coverage?
Example of how demand is increasing each year higher than what the source once supported. You had to have seen this coming decades ago by the lesson not learned from the "Los Angeles Aqueduct". This is not news, this is another notification.
This wouldn’t be such an issue if you took out the recreation side of the argument. And that comment will make people mad. Water management is a difficult task. And if your only view point is recreation, you won’t comprehend anything else the reservoir manages. BTW I grew up in Trinity/HumCo
Trinity was built in 1961, So, 61 years and the Bureau of Reclamation can't figure out how to keep the water levels high by letting water down the river after an epic year of rain. Learn as you go seems like a lot of BS.
Sure, it would be a little expensive but why not connect some of these reservoirs in CA with pipelines and pumps that can move water between them so that if one area is overflowing, that water can be re-directed to another area instead of just flushed down a river into the ocean?
@@Smegma_pirate Is it really that expensive or overly complicated? We do it with oil, natural gas, jet fuel, water, sewage, already. I'm not talking about running a pipeline from one end of CA to the other. Just from one drainage basin to another.
Can’t personally confirm, but Trinity dam has been undergoing underwater repairs, I heard. The divers doing the work, whatever their doing, get paid by the foot (depth) they work at. It’s expensive. I heard they’re keeping out flows high to reduce the cost. Whatever the case, their IS a real economy at the lake by the folks that use it. I realize it’s a reclamation lake not a recreation lake, but c’mon, Trinity river looks like flood stage! Cork up that dam and save Trinity lake!
"Learning as we go"????? That is bureaucrat code for "I screwed up but there's no way I'll admit it". Ancient civilizations knew water is essential for survival and learned to manage it. Witness a typical california bureaucrat who says "we're just learning how to manage water". Is this guy newsom's brother in law or something?
Ground water also needs to be replenished. Water still needs to be conserved, who knows how many more years until more rain and snow AND El Niño is forming and that can make a lot of changes especially as the ocean is warmer anyway.
Basically they messed up and are making excuses on why they won’t let Mother Nature do her thing and fill up that lake and who gave humans the power to control mother nature
They Diverted a Huge portion of the flow away from the natural direction towards the coast and into the valley towards Redding into Whiskeytown Lake.
How exactly did they do that?
His response starts with they just had a drought. Duhhh.
The infrastructure is insufficient. Even with all the other lakes full, just one or two bad years and we're right back where we started. Given that the we're told to expect greater swings in weather going forward, we should have a system that works on a 5 or even 10 year basis instead of 1-2 years.
All the full reservoirs have so much water they're basically letting it run into the ocean. It would be great if we had more intermediary storage facilities or even ways to transfer water between basins (for Trinity it will be expensive since it's so high up but it can also function as pumped storage as well).
Actually that would be interesting.. to do pumped storage between Trinity and Shasta. Just making a rough guess from a map, they're about 20 miles apart. That would require a very big tunnel though.
Hyena J "Basically letting it run into the ocean?" California farmers and cities already use up over 50% of CA's surface water. And you propose trapping more? So more CA rice and nuts can be exported?
What we really need to do is stop producing so much ag products for export. California should predominantly feed Californians. Especially because the wealth generated from ag exports is not distributed in an ethical manner amongst those who work to produce it.
@Ikani trinity lake is pumped into whiskeytown lake.
@@johnbrattan9341 wow... I can't believe that FARMERS use WATER for growing food. So damning...
So they f-ed up and drained the lake during a drought and drained more when it rained....
That's some special thinking there.
That's California backwards thinking.
They are ignoring that they were doing maintenance on it until March.
I had a houseboat on Trinity years ago. After years of low water levels, I went to the command authority controlling water level, which was operating under the control of the Native Indian tribe of coastal Northern California, asking about chronic low water levels. I was told that the purpose pf the lake wasn't for 'my enjoyment', it was to regulate outflow.
She said the lake 'would never be full again'. I sold my houseboat (at a loss) and have never been back.
The natives now have plenty of flow to maintain their fisheries, and the bureaucrat's prediction has been accurate.
Thank Bill Barr for this.
It's the same with Folsom. People were crying about much of the early releases this year. People said it should be filled up first. Folsom will refill over three times this year. It's an important part of the flood control system. Folsom would over fill to flow without any control and that's a bad situation for many people downstream.
yes- the fisheries are more important that your enjoyment.
@@chadnystrom698but but I bought a boat!?
I figured that. It had to have something to do with the Indians in the area.
THANK YOU to Wilson Walker for the in depth coverage and traveling up to the true Northern California for this report.
You are CORRECT.
People like to casually call San Francisco County NORTHERN " California.
It is NOT.
Basically, Santa Cruz County is about the Midpoint of the California Coastline; and San Francisco County is only 70 - 75 Miles North of it.
San Francisco is actually CENTRAL COASTAL California.
San Luis Obispo is considered CENTRAL Coastal California, right ?
Well, the Distance between SLO and the Mexican Border is LESS than the distance between San Francisco and the OREGON Border, therefore San Francisco County MUST also be CENTRAL Coastal California. ( It may be the Northern PART of CENTRAL Coastal California; but it is STILL CENTRAL Coastal California ! )
Humboldt, Chico, Sacramento, Redding, Shasta : These ARE Northern California; San Francisco County is NOT.
You are CORRECT.
People like to casually call San Francisco County NORTHERN " California.
It is NOT.
Basically, Santa Cruz County is about the Midpoint of the California Coastline; and San Francisco County is only 70 - 75 Miles North of it.
San Francisco is actually CENTRAL COASTAL California.
San Luis Obispo is considered CENTRAL Coastal California, right ?
Well, the Distance between SLO and the Mexican Border is LESS than the distance between San Francisco and the OREGON Border, therefore San Francisco County MUST also be CENTRAL Coastal California. ( It may be the Northern PART of CENTRAL Coastal California; but it is STILL CENTRAL Coastal California ! )
Humboldt, Chico, Sacramento, Redding, Shasta : These ARE Northern California; San Francisco County is NOT.
It is so frustrating to hear people call SF northern California.
@@vids595
You are CORRECT.
San Francisco, which is about just 70 miles North of Santa Cruz County is ACTUALLY CENTRAL Coastal California.
If you look at the Map 🗺️ of CALIFORNIA, Santa Cruz County is basically the Midpoint of the Coast of CALIFORNIA.
So, by WARPED Logic, IF San Francisco is "Northern" California , then Carmel, which is South of the Midpoint, MUST be "Southern" California !
San Francisco County is NOT 🚫 "Northern" California; it IS CENTRAL Coastal California.
@@CurtisELeMay-wr5mi Republican trash.
They released EARLY large volumes is the tragic error and was a mistake. "We just released the water early" isn't going to fill it up later. This could end up very tragic in a few years.
I really doubt that they care. And that's the liberals for you.
Why in the world would you release the volume for the entire season early over a few day period?
i think they said it was for salmon. We often forget that there are other living things that depend on water at critical times of the year.
Stupidity.
That NE corner of California had a good winter (like the report said - 120% of normal), but the two to three times normal snowfall happened in the Sierra Nevada (plus the San Gabriel/San Bernardino ranges in SoCal).
Yes the water district messed up big time!
The US Bureau of Reclamations is not a water district.
Took a helicopter survey over the alps and the snow hasnt even started melting in earnest yet.
There are three huge tunnels that funnel water to where it should NOT be going and that is to Whiskeytown Lake that is in the Sacramento River Basin. Pull your heads out.
Whiskeytown was created to provide more water for central valley farmers. Like rice and nut growers, where 80% is exported overseas. This makes no sense.
@@johnbrattan9341 Water is money. The new gold rush.
@@johnbrattan9341 but this helps the riparian habitat in clear creek gorge.
@@k9er233 And we get less of that gold.
@@paulbegley1464 So true.
Next winter will be an El Niño, don't waste the water next winter. Not so much snow though because it'll be warm but there will be a ton of rain
In addition to maintaining the riparian habitat for wildlife there are plenty of businesses downstream that need the river to be flowing, just like the businesses at the lake want it full. You can't please everyone all the time.
They released to much water and still are. It’s been raining all end of May
Governments fault . Remember how they dumped all the water into the ocean 🤦🏽♂️
Ummm 🙄🤔
Isn't that what Rivers have done since before any government or man for that matter 🤔😳😬💯😘
The water had to be released from Trinity to prepare for the snow pack to melt which if it is anything like the Sierras then the Trinity Lake will be full in a couple months.
@@michaeldeierhoi4096 overflowing in a couple months... 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🙋
Not true. Trinity Alps didn't get much of a snowpack this year. Not like the Sierra's did.
@@KIMPAKA5 Too bad then.. Bad luck alright... I'll say.
No wonder they built farms around Corcoran in a fish bowl🤔😳🙄
Omg a bumper year after a long drought and you drain off the snow melt.Sounds like you should work for Anheiser Busch with your forward thinking skills..
Bull! They know how to move water. Trinity should be full.
I suspect the water managers failed to consider a scenario of the extreme low level of the lake when they crafted and implemented the Trinity River Recovery Plan that compelled the excessive releases. Their otherwise reasonable plan fell short when they failed to be nimble enough to temporarily adjust the release plan and allow the lake to recover a bit more.
However, unlike Shasta, Trinity Lake is primarily fed by snow melt and there is plenty of that. So we will soon see how well their water math & recovery pans out. Hopefully, there will be a decent lake level soon and no so much regret.
Then those incompetents should be fired.
Trump took it
@Ajax 7ox what are you babbling about 🤣 go buy your reinforced tucking woman's bathing suit at Target.
The level "to come" was a question that was conspicuously absent in this report.
Someone has the data to state what the reservoir should be sitting at once the melt is done for the year.
They keep trying supplement cold water in the Trinity to make up for the lack of water in the lower Klamath IMO. The alps still have a lot of snow to melt yet
Obviously these idiots at Trinity shouldn't have released ANY water during the winter deluge since it fills up a lot slower than other reservoirs. So, their loss 🙄
How about pay your taxes
sounds like the releases were to help salmon which have been decimated by the drought. Everything is more complicated than we would like.
“I don’t think everyone would be bitchin’ so bad” 😂
They released all the water from the lake to help the fish in the river but the river will run dry in the summer now because there is not going to be any cold water left in the lake. How is that supposed to help the fish?
The snow melt should take care of it.
Climate change. Nothing to do with management plans. California and the west coast of the U.S. is going to get a lot dryer than it used to be and since carbon emissions haven't been reduced by any significant amount, it's not going to get any better. The record snowfalls and rain this year are a temporary reprieve. Trinity lake as it is now... is northern California's future. Empty lakes and dry rivers.
Shhhhh your not your not supposed to ask smart question. There not used to use The People thinking for our selves !
@oldkayakdude Some people will never get it.
They released water to restore the fish habitat. Would it not be better to have a full reservoir in the end?
Release of water is best right now anyhow....you got it right!
✌️🙋
Fish rely on moving water to create more fish, it’s called “spawning”
@@lesliepropheter5040 YUP...
@@lesliepropheter5040 makes you wonder how there were any salmon or steelhead in the rivers before dams were built to control flow and temps..../s
@@lesliepropheter5040 come hell or high water fish will always spawn before death
The purpose of reservoirs is to save and manage fresh water for use by population centers. That is who pays for the reservoirs. The people who use the reservoirs for recreation are getting extra government benefits. They aren't people with a stake who need to be serviced. The reservoir in the center of the community I lived in didn't even allow power boats, just sailboats. When the nearby city needs water they drain the reservoir to nothing. While scary, we didn't bellyache about it.
Nonsense, water from Trinity is pumped out to Whiskeytown and to the Central Valley. And not for population centers.
Behind every drought is a river Restoration Project or Fish Study. They let out way more water then they should have
Absolutely!! The Trinity River Recovery Plan is to blame for this.
If you use an ag interest based definition of "drought" sure. I support fishermen.
Liberals at work once again.
Glad that you guys cover this fact!
Obviously not all of it from what I've been reading. Just with some of the comments I've seen.
That makes sense, let’s release more water and not retain it for later use! Someone messed up on their decision making.
They didn't mess up, they do this on purpose, because they required a "crisis", whether or not they caused it themselves.
That's how California gets those emergency federal funds for their planned incompetence.
The Mexicans took it
It looks beautiful
Calm down its not even the middle of May. It will rise by July
Still melting snow pack, 50% left
That happens when your population is too big like California
I still think it's a great dam . Cheers from Australia
They should link all these lakes, that way they can redistribute the water instead of just letting it loose.
So we do have a bunch of linking as far as the canal system goes, and some of the reservoirs are balanced that way. California's water management system is already the largest in the world. Unfortunately Trinity is one of the northern most lakes and is in large mountain ranges. The volume of water to move is more than just using a water pipe between them. For reference, the canals are usually 100ft wide and anywhere from 15-30ft deep.
Trinity is the highest against Shasta and Oroville. So they cant divert extra waters without spend tonnes of electricity pumping up.
Gravity is a btch. They're at all different altitudes.
Whiskey is for drinking. Water is for fighting over.
And it looks like we are going to be the loser in that fight.
Don't trust the water bureau!!! They sold the water to other districts where they can make more money or protect the elites!!! Watch them closely over the next months and document, document, document with your lawyers!!!
THIS is what is wrong with Californias water management ..... the state has done NOTHING to address these problems except to mandate conserving at the tap
This is a more localized issue affecting Trinity in relation to a state issue. It’s a cause of the local water district draining the water.
@@Skeedabo my comment had NOTHING to do with local water districts draining the water...did it? Go back and re read what I typed......California blinds itself to other solutions for water storage in the name of the tree hugging liberal diphead acquiescence
Plain and simple, There is a political reason they are letting water out of the dam instead of retaining it.
Which is?
You know it.
CARTELS DRAWING WATER OUT OF THESE RESAVOIRS .TO FEED THERE HUNDREDS OF ACRES OF CARTELS FIELDS .IN NORTHERN CALIFORIA SISQU COUNTY. ..NOT HELPING.
This is an artificial lake to begin with some years it won’t be full, it’s unnaturally large and the local environment isn’t going to always be able to fill it.
Donald Badar sounds like a politician covering up a mistake. You shouldn't be "learning as you go" when you have that job.
So why don't we have the means to pump water from overflowing reservoirs into trinity
Wow!!!They be Fkn up .....Up there....
Corruption and money is the problem
I've always wondered why do they let out the water early for. To me it's stupid. You wait until it needs to be released.
Lake Trinity is now at 58%. Great fishing Lake with the House Boats we used to rent. I wish they would get this Lake up again!!! This is the 3rd largest reservoir in California and they wrecked it!
This type of reporting leaves more questions. What about the fish? Where does that water out of the dam go? ... to the ocean or to the Sac basin? Why does the level of the water matter? If I want to rent a boat, it just means a smaller lake. At least I'm on the water, isn't that they main thing? No mention of a generator on that dam. Why does it matter?
This is called P_ss Poor Management. The manager said its a learn as you go situation. Trinity lake has been around for a long time, I guess they have not learn a thing in that time.
This report has been brought to you buy the Almond Grower's Association which needs to continue pumping ground water to sell on the open market because they actually have nothing to do with almonds anymore.
Its simple some areas got 300% of normal snow fall, while others only got 120%
I have lived up here since 1998 and only seen Trinity full once in 2010-2011.
I was in the area back in 2000 and it seemed pretty full then. At lest that was the way it looked
At least next year looks like it will be El Nino wet and hopefully Trinity will catch a little more of that.
We hope.
Thet shut off Shastas water output and opened Trinity’s output and diverted that water to the Sacramento River.
The Wonderful Company OWNS all your water.
Reservoir design capacity too large for watershed output potential? Please clarify the amount of this season's total precipitation. Compare the ratio with others. In-depth coverage?
Cartels taking the water
Kept artificially low to keep on hiking water rates.
Example of how demand is increasing each year higher than what the source once supported. You had to have seen this coming decades ago by the lesson not learned from the "Los Angeles Aqueduct". This is not news, this is another notification.
Yet one more example of the State's incompetent water management.
They are doing the same thing to Millerton as the water flow down the San Joaquin River.
The law forbids you to use water as a resource
The water managers messed up
Need to figure out another way to feed Trinity lake
They need to run a pipe line to Trinity. A foot wide pipe running 24/7 would make a big difference.
This wouldn’t be such an issue if you took out the recreation side of the argument. And that comment will make people mad. Water management is a difficult task. And if your only view point is recreation, you won’t comprehend anything else the reservoir manages. BTW I grew up in Trinity/HumCo
do not cry you will be getting a bad storm before spring ends
Water mismanagement. What a surprise.
Trinity was built in 1961, So, 61 years and the Bureau of Reclamation can't figure out how to keep the water levels high by letting water down the river after an epic year of rain. Learn as you go seems like a lot of BS.
Whiskey is for drinking. Water is worth fighting over.
DELIBERATE! NOT A MISTAKE.
Urban pilgrims take note; Drought in the west begins when the rain stops, and ends when the rains return. It has ever been thus.
Sure, it would be a little expensive but why not connect some of these reservoirs in CA with pipelines and pumps that can move water between them so that if one area is overflowing, that water can be re-directed to another area instead of just flushed down a river into the ocean?
That’s an insanely expensive and overly complicated way to compensate for fools making bad decisions
@@Smegma_pirate Is it really that expensive or overly complicated? We do it with oil, natural gas, jet fuel, water, sewage, already. I'm not talking about running a pipeline from one end of CA to the other. Just from one drainage basin to another.
...or we could use a fleet of helicopters with big buckets to bring water to reservoirs that need it.
I'd like to see where the reservoir ends up after the hot months causing bigger runoffs
Your racist
Can’t personally confirm, but Trinity dam has been undergoing underwater repairs, I heard. The divers doing the work, whatever their doing, get paid by the foot (depth) they work at. It’s expensive. I heard they’re keeping out flows high to reduce the cost. Whatever the case, their IS a real economy at the lake by the folks that use it. I realize it’s a reclamation lake not a recreation lake, but c’mon, Trinity river looks like flood stage! Cork up that dam and save Trinity lake!
They don't do this again to us key words
Are the average water levels in Cali wells still falling ?
Yes and produce growers are installing illegal wells all over the central valley.
They want to maintain their "drought" story so they can cause a food shortage.
Given the amount of ag products that are exported vs eaten by Californians, there is no risk of a food shortage for us.
Yah they released it’s all about control n high water costs
its not a lake, its' a dam.
So basically the water management f*** up
Mismanagement is NO excuse to cry now…. Fire Everyone and talk next year!!!!!
"Learning as we go"????? That is bureaucrat code for "I screwed up but there's no way I'll admit it". Ancient civilizations knew water is essential for survival and learned to manage it. Witness a typical california bureaucrat who says "we're just learning how to manage water". Is this guy newsom's brother in law or something?
Yeah hopefully it will fill up! Otherwise these people who are in charge, should be replaced with common sense folks!!!
We need to build more resevoirs
Ground water also needs to be replenished. Water still needs to be conserved, who knows how many more years until more rain and snow AND El Niño is forming and that can make a lot of changes especially as the ocean is warmer anyway.
aw now they saying they could have stopped the flood
So mismanagement admitted too shocking.
...too many people.
they keep mixing up the term lake and reservoir
Oh they dont want it filled or they would of.
THE FISH THAT GET CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE ARE JUST FINE AS LONG AS THE TARTAR SAUCE HOLDS OUT...
So you need a garden hose.
It will fill when the managers stop being dumb when there's a good snow year.
People are still watering grass in the middle of the day. Water is a commodity so now the people can water on people 💪🏻
There releasing the water to fast, all the snow pack isn't going melt at once!,smh
Because our state would rather waste water and have it sent to the ocean then preserve it for the state.
Basically they messed up and are making excuses on why they won’t let Mother Nature do her thing and fill up that lake and who gave humans the power to control mother nature
The blind leading the blind.
Welcome to California
The US Bureau of Reclamations is in charge of Trinity reservoir and many of the other larger reservoirs. It's not a state project.
Sounds like Trinity has been mismanaged…. That’s not unusual for this Dem state.
@4:28 LOL did he just said "bit ching"??
Tulare Basin identified and water needs to be diverted.
You got it going on woman
Why would they decide to release so much during the winter months if there is such a small basin that supports the lake???