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Thread: California's dry ..... again
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06-04-2021, 05:56 AM #126Banned
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06-04-2021, 06:30 AM #127Banned
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I'm just wondering man. Geez. I mean it could be a simple ground water well. I got no clue other than I don't pay the town for water or sewer.
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06-04-2021, 06:46 AM #128
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06-04-2021, 06:47 AM #129
The short answer is it is complicated in the Northeast. Likely you are in bedrock, so rather than a saturated layer of soil, water is traveling from the surface into a bunch of interconnected fractures in the bedrock. But generally speaking groundwater will follow surface water divides, so if you are on a hill or near a ridge, you are probably more in the source area. But it is all interconnected, and over pumping in one well can draw down water levels nearby from the cone of depression. Bottom line, it rains more in the northeast, but we also have built less storage, so sometimes you have to worry about drought.
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06-04-2021, 07:10 AM #130Banned
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06-04-2021, 07:17 AM #131
Yeah, other than weird bedrock formations sectioning off areas (which you'd probably know about from weird building patterns/rock formations), you can generally assume that everyone is pulling from common resources, as in the broader sense it's often the same watershed. You can look up some info here: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal...er/watersheds/
If you want more detailed info, your town probably has a water board or a board that deals with water stuff, and you can usually get info from them. Water management is maturing, but in many cases is somewhat immature. My town does a decent job, but only because we're the municipal water source for roughly 50% of city demand in nearby towns/cities.
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06-04-2021, 07:29 AM #132
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06-04-2021, 07:36 AM #133Banned
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06-04-2021, 07:48 AM #134Registered User
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06-04-2021, 08:00 AM #135
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06-04-2021, 09:42 AM #136Registered User
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"Tinfoil"? Yeah, maybe ..... https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/california-globe/
I generally support Ag, but not the "all the waters are MINE" shit. If you can't share equitably, then you you don't deserve ANY water.
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06-04-2021, 09:58 AM #137
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06-04-2021, 10:33 AM #138Registered User
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06-04-2021, 11:03 AM #139
To be fair...the only things I pray for these days are rain and snow.
Things are dire here in western CO. Meanwhile my fucking neighbor waters his lawn every single day at 4pm, Trump sign still displayed proudly.
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06-07-2021, 08:44 AM #140
This article in the Atlantic suggests the federal government should start buying up ranchland in upper Klamath and give it to the Klamath tribe to restore as wetland and fish habitat. Makes the argument that this would actually be cheaper than the money feds spend right now paying farmers when they can't farm due to water restrictions.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/...nflict/619109/
$23 mill gets you this prime ranchland:
https://www.wilksranchbrokers.com/pr...e-river-ranch/
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06-07-2021, 01:21 PM #141
How prime will that ranch be when the rains/snows quit coming and the Sprague's flows crap out?
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06-10-2021, 11:32 AM #142
Amid mega-drought, rightwing militia stokes water rebellion in US west
Fears of a confrontation between law enforcement and rightwing militia supporters over the control of water in the drought-stricken American west have been sparked by protests at Klamath Falls in Oregon.
Protesters affiliated with rightwing anti-government activist Ammon Bundy’s People’s Rights Network are threatening to break a deadlock over water management in the area by unilaterally opening the headgates of a reservoir.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/..._b-aplnews_d-1
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06-10-2021, 02:43 PM #143Registered User
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Well hell; just like the sun rising in the East, Bundy's spirit arises to aid the myopic and religiously entitled.
Edit: Fucking LUNDY?!?!? That's more common than BUNDY for crissake!!???!! Fuck you AI overlords!.Last edited by PB; 06-10-2021 at 07:00 PM.
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06-10-2021, 02:58 PM #144
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06-11-2021, 08:52 AM #145
From NYTimes. Years are not showing up but upper left is 2021 and bottom right is 2020. Darker the red, the drier. Some other interesting graphs in the article:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...gtype=Homepage
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06-11-2021, 05:13 PM #146
^^^^2002 at the bottom.
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06-11-2021, 06:25 PM #147Registered User
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2 and 0s ...... so confusing.
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06-17-2021, 06:53 PM #148
SPI is closing public access to their lands due to drought and wildfire potential: https://spi-ind.com/OurForests/RecreationAccess
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06-17-2021, 07:20 PM #149Registered User
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A map of their closed lands would be nice. Can't blame them for closing though.
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06-17-2021, 10:47 PM #150
All national forest lands in California closed last summer. I would expect the same this summer--nearly all the hiking and backpacking in the mountains.
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