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California Needs The Klamath And the Eel Reservoirs Put In

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California Needs The Klamath And the Eel Reservoirs Put In

Raising the Dam at Lake Shasta 200 feet instead of the previously proposed 20 
feet, will add 10 million acre feet of Water (raising total capacity to 14 million 
acre feet).
Cite New York Times: 
https://www.nytimes.com/1979/01/18/archives/us-may-add-200-feet-to-a-coast-dam-cheaper-alternative.html 
:
"Many possibilities for tapping more water from the rushing northern rivers are 
under consideration. An increasingly plausible one, engineers say, would be to add 
about 200 feet to the height of Shasta Dam.  That would triple its storage 
capacity to 14 million acre‐feet, more than one‐third of the state's annual 
consumption, and would increase the reservoir's annual yield of four million 
acre‐feet some 25 percent." in January 18, 1979

The Klamath Reservoir will add 15 million acre feet of water.

The Eel "Dos Rios" Reservoir will add 7.5 million acre feet of water.

That is 32.5 million acre feet of water between the three.

Lake Mead and Lake Powell are the two largest reservoirs in the United States. 
They each hold up to 25 million acre feet of water, but they are presently at 34% 
and 27% capacity, each with only 8.9 and 6.5 million acre feet of water, only 15.4 
million acre feet of water total between the two. 
https://www.usbr.gov/lc/region/g4000/weekly.pdf

There is a drought every decade or so in California.  Entire farms could die out.

The Federal Government needs to put in reservoirs, like the Hoover Dam. Farms are 
industry.  Industry needs 100% facilitation to work.  Farmers should not have to 
worry about water, farmers should be able to water all day in 101 degree weather. 
Water should be like sunlight.  That's the way production gets done.  It takes 
money to make money.  The Federal government water project is for farmers. The 
State water project is for drinking water.

The above capacity numbers are capacity only.  Someone should research how fast 
these reservoirs would fill up relative to each other, that is, *yield*, and see 
if the water *capacity* numbers are really the most pertinent or not.


Here is pertinent intelligence accumulated so far, on, ca.water:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ca.water/y5tkrEW4Gkk



The California Central Valley produces one-third of all produce grown in the 
United States.

Possible solutions that apparently aren't:
1. Oregon - the Columbia River makes the border of the two States of Washington 
and Oregon, and starts in British Columbia, and empties tons of fresh water into 
the Ocean.  All the rivers in Oregon flow South to North.  So unless you were 
going to float the water down the coast in big tubes, that's not liable to matter.
2. The Peripheral Canal, was rejected by the voters.  I think they thought it was 
going to cause pollution.
3. Turning Salt Water into Fresh Water.  Some governments such as the San Diego 
County Water Authority, in Carlsbad, are resorting to this: 
https://www.sdcwa.org/seawater-desalination , as is Australia.  Is this really a 
cost effective solution?  Cost effectiveness may be all it comes to.

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