By Nicole Garcia KMPH TV, Fresno.
Fresno – Thanks to our wetter than normal winter, Governor Jerry Brown is set to declare an end to California’s 3-year-drought.
At Friant Dam, officials have been running flood release operations for more than a week now.
Millerton Lake is at 85% capacity, and Friant Dam officials need to make room for all the snow melt that will come pouring in once the temperatures get warmer.
Water is being released at a rate of 7,000 cubic feet of water per second, that’s equivalent to 52,000 gallons or enough water to fill up 8 swimming pools every second.
But all that excess water isn’t staying in the Valley; it will likely flow into the California aqueduct and into the Pacific Ocean.
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Governor Brown is expected to announce an end to the drought on Wednesday, after the Department of Water Resources conducts their last monthly snow survey.
At last check, the sierra snowpack was 159% of normal.
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Let me see if I understand the global warming doctrine:
Global warming has taken control of the climate.
California’s drought has ended.
Therefore, global warming has ended the drought.
Global warming is bad, and only causes bad events.
So the end of the drought is bad.
If ending the drought is bad, then drought must have been good.
So global warming has ended California’s perfect weather of drought, and children may never see weeks on end with no rain. What a terrible shame.
Oh, the evils of CO2.
I mostly agree with Chuck. California only has water shortages because it won’t build the needed dams.
Of course southern California, with most of the state’s population, grabs water supplies from the north; that’s old news. (Gov. Brown deserves credit for the fact that when he was in office the first time, he put the Peripheral Canal proposal to a referendum and abided by the “No” the voters gave him. Now that the last legislature enacted it without consulting us, I hope that Brown can be prevailed upon to stop it again.) But if SoCal ever stopped doing that, the “shortages” would just shift to them.
The right and only answer is to build more dams, and if needed, desalinization plants. And start charging farmers the same price for water as home users, so as to move the water-intensive forms of agriculture to the Mississippi basin where they belong.
A 3 year drought? Snowpack wise, 2 of these last 3 are the wettest years on record. And 5 of the last 7 are the top wettest years. In the last 10 years only 2007/8 was even far enough below normal to be called a drought year.
How do you get 3 years of drought out of that??
But all that excess water isn’t staying in the Valley; it will likely flow into the California aqueduct and into the Pacific Ocean.
Allowing this to happen to save a toad is manifest ignorance.
Why not pump this ‘EXCESS’ water to the lakes they’ve run dry in their quest for more water.
Here’s another idea why not pump it to desert liken to the Desert Aqua-Net Plan.
http://www.shimz.co.jp/english/theme/dream/desert.html
This is man made climate change I could deal with.
Wait.
Never mind the great greenie people rejected something similar to this 9 years ago.
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/oct2002/2002-10-09-06.html