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Lake Powell is 70% empty #3035961
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Going to take a long time to fill it back up, if ever ..




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Re: Lake Powell is 70% empty [Re: bigdad] #3035963
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Re: Lake Powell is 70% empty [Re: bigdad] #3035966
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Saw the same type of thing with Lake Mead. Old towns that were covered by the lake, not seeing the sun in decades are out in the open again.

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Re: Lake Powell is 70% empty [Re: Cab_Burge] #3036003
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There is a reason all of those are man made lakes and not natural lakes. The normal water supply isn't there to support a lake long term.

They will eventually refill, but how long eventually is remains to be seen.

Re: Lake Powell is 70% empty [Re: Sniper] #3036014
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Michigan is surrounded buy water. All the lakeshore communities pull water from the lakes. But inland, people use well water and the ancient aquufers are running dry. Mid state we have Nestles pulling millions of gallons a day of FREE WATER out of the ground to bottle and sell. In fact they have just been allowed to pull even MORE out of the ground. MAN, I bet theres some corruption involved there.

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Re: Lake Powell is 70% empty [Re: 71TA] #3036025
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I used to have a decent sized powerboat and a group of us from here drug them to lake Powell for a 2 week trip, it just hard to fathom that much water disappearing ..


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Re: Lake Powell is 70% empty [Re: bigdad] #3036051
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Would appear Hoover dam and a few other hydroelectric plants are falling to a point that their ability to continue to produce power is in question eek Hmm might want to hold off on that EV purchase whistling
And remember, you heard it here first, on MOPARTS LOL

Re: Lake Powell is 70% empty [Re: bigdad] #3036084
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It's always amazed me how they decided to build such huge cities in the dessert so far away from any significant fresh water. Seems like someone could make a fortune laying a water pipe along the coast to get water from the sacremento river, or columbia river or several smaller rivers or something. They could lay an undersea water pipe down the coast to LA just like they do oil pipes and if it leaks big freaking deal, patch it up and no mess to clean up! Take the pressure off LA using that water and Vegas and Phoenix would be free to use the colorado without worrying about running it dry (for a while) and let those fake lakes fill back up.


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Re: Lake Powell is 70% empty [Re: bigdad] #3036108
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5 or so years ago I wondered:
Where would be the best spot to bore a tunnel to divert water from the Missouri/Mississippi watershed to the Colorado River watershed?

What did I learn?

Denver was already doing.... the opposite!

There are multiple tunnels bringing Colorado River water through the mountains to Denver,
where it ends up in the sewer plants hat empty in the Platt River system and flows east to the Mississippi watershed.

There is a chapter in “Sand County Almanac” about the swamp that used to exist where the Colorado emptied into the Gulf of California.
Sand now.

I took a great white water rafting trip about 1979 down the Colorado River.

Saw a great documentary last year about Dick Griffith
the legendary river guide and wilderness marathon racer
who took the first inflatable raft over Lava Falls
and then returned in his late 80s to be the oldest to row himself over lava falls.

https://themilepost.com/articles/the-last-run-of-dick-griffith/

https://www.pbs.org/video/canyons-ice-the-last-run-of-dick-griffit-i3uoau/

All this made me want to runs the Colorado again.

Re: Lake Powell is 70% empty [Re: 360view] #3036111
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I wish we could give them some from Pa. Lots of water here.


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Re: Lake Powell is 70% empty [Re: pittsburghracer] #3036122
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And most people don't know that the French have been buying up water companies throughout the USA for decades! After all they ARE the people who started the hole bottled water thing. Do some research on that, it is eye-opening! eek


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Re: Lake Powell is 70% empty [Re: HotRodDave] #3036143
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L.A. has been stealing, buying, paying for water canals and piping water from all over CA since the turn of the century. The first stolen bought water is from the Owens valley on the east side of the Seirra Mountains, it is piped and uses gravity fed water in canals to get to L.A. The next one is the All American canal from the south east corner of CA along the Colorado river and is routed from their through the Imperial and Coachella valleys and pump it into L.A. from the bottom of the White Water grade.
Their are another one or two canals from the Colardo river, one form the Parker Dam ,Lake Havazu, feeding that water into L.A.
The last water piping project taking water form the Sacramento central CA area is the Feather river project that was built in the late 1960s and finish in the early 1970.
Some of the wiser cities along the coast like Santa Barbera and several others further north on the coast have built and are using water desalination plants to reclaim and use ocean water up
The immigration, legal and illegal, of all people into SO CA should have been stop years ago due to the water problems and other crisis like no more space for them twocents


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Re: Lake Powell is 70% empty [Re: Cab_Burge] #3036147
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An optimist would say Lake Powell is 30% full!
I wish I could send some of our water. My pumps kicking on every 10 minutes from today’s downpours.
Illinois has no shortage of taxes, corruption, crime or water.

Re: Lake Powell is 70% empty [Re: Mastershake340] #3036153
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So, they’ll just dry up and so long hydroelectric power?


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Re: Lake Powell is 70% empty [Re: 71TA] #3036157
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Originally Posted by 71TA
Michigan is surrounded buy water. All the lakeshore communities pull water from the lakes. But inland, people use well water and the ancient aquufers are running dry. Mid state we have Nestles pulling millions of gallons a day of FREE WATER out of the ground to bottle and sell. In fact they have just been allowed to pull even MORE out of the ground. MAN, I bet theres some corruption involved there.

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Re: Lake Powell is 70% empty [Re: Sunroofcuda] #3036163
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Plenty of water in the ocean but that takes POWER to take the salt out. The need for oil is still prevalent to do that job.

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I wonder how the Salton Sea is doing these days. Haven't been there since 1967..... wave

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Originally Posted by bobby66


I wonder how the Salton Sea is doing these days. Haven't been there since 1967..... wave


Disappearing a little bit every year.

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