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Gold/Mining/Energy : Big Dog's Boom Boom Room
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To: Bearcatbob who wrote (194266)1/6/2016 12:21:18 AM
From: edward miller3 Recommendations   of 206321
 
BCB,

Since I drove to Sacramento for Christmas I can enlighten you a bit. Many of the major reservoirs show little obvious improvement, the most obvious driving from the PNW is Shasta, which is visible from I-5. Since you haven't been to the West Coast (as I recall was stated by you/others) you really have no sense of the magnitude of the water storage system. I am guessing that it will take 10 years of normal precipitation to fill them. I haven't seen other major reservoirs in person but I have read about and seen pictures of Oroville and Folsom, just north and east of Sacramento, so I know they are in worse shape than Shasta.

I am not a big fan of Jerry Brown but he doesn't need to do anything new to capture the water. The system is there to do that work, but it will take a long time and lots of water to restore what was there, if it ever gets fully replenished. With more people on top of the potential agribusiness demand I think the future for city water is going to come from other sources like desalinization plants. Water in the West is seriously over-allocated.

Just my 2 cents on the topic, as one who has lived in LA in the past.

Edit: Need to add a comment on Carli F. She is full of it. Remember she is grandstanding in a futile attempt to be relevant in the Presidential Sweepstakes!

Ed
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