Another drought impact.
Flaming Gorge level set to drop
BY THE WYOMING NEWS EXCHANGE
CASPER — The Southwest is turning to upstream reservoirs as the water level in Lake Powell continues to fall.
Regulators plan to release an extra 500,000 acre-feet of water from Wyoming’s Flaming Gorge Reservoir between May of this year and April of next year to prevent Lake Powell, a reservoir on the Colorado River that’s a major source of both water and electricity, from becoming so depleted that it stops generating hydropower.
Prolonged drought and high temperatures fueled by climate change have shrunk the water level in Lake Powell, which sits on both sides of the Utah-Arizona border, to about one-quarter of capacity. The first-ever planned effort to ease the effects of drought at the reservoir comes less than a year after regulators announced an emergency release of 125,000 acre-feet from Flaming Gorge — about 4 feet in elevation loss — last summer.
If approved by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the additional release is expected to lower the water level at Flaming Gorge by 10 feet from its current elevation — including a 6-foot drop by August — and by about 15 feet compared with the estimated water level without any drought response.
Historically, there’s been less demand for water from Flaming Gorge than other upper-basin reservoirs. The lower demand kept its water level high, which kept it popular for recreation.
Mule
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Yeah, just build a house anywhere and hook up to rural water supply. Everyone's doing it, what could go wrong? People have no idea how to live on limited water supply like the cistern well I grew up with.
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My well uncheck will run 20/25 gal a minute
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sigh................too many straws in the supply and too much diversion of flow equals water loss and "drought areas".
Even a fucking libtard can figure that out.
Water management in this country is laughable.
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They found that getting rid of all of the potholes up in the Dakotas wasn't just hurting the duck population. The aquifers' recharge by standing water trickling back in, not by water just running off. The Ogalala suffered much from it.
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Water producing states like Colorado and Wyoming have to suffer drought because of all the water they are required to give to water wasters like Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Phoenix.
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Climate change🤐, in every story from wildfires to hurricanes. TO MANY sucking leeches off the supply is my take.
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NOT building cities in deserts........might help. 😀😃
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If I ever get out of California I will put in cisterns where I will build my compound. That is if that isn't illegal.
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