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Decision to dump water from Tulare County lakes altered after sending locals into a mad scramble​


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Decision to dump water from Tulare County lakes altered after sending locals into a mad scramble – SJV Water

Water managers were relieved Thursday evening after the Army Corps of Engineers agreed to back off of a sudden decision earlier in the day to dump massive
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“Water managers were relieved Thursday evening after the Army Corps of Engineers agreed to back off of a sudden decision earlier in the day to dump massive amounts of water from Kaweah and Success lakes.

Water managers said they got about an hour’s warning from the Army Corp’s Sacramento office to expect the Tule and Kaweah rivers to be at “channel capacity” by Thursday night.

Channel capacity means the maximum amount of water a river can handle. For the Kaweah, that’s 5,500 cubic feet per second and for the Tule, it’s 3,500 cfs.

Those levels were last seen, and surpassed, during the 2023 floods, which destroyed dozens of homes and businesses and caused significant damage to infrastructure.

“We were able to get them to back off that,” said Eric Limas, General Manager of the Lower Tule River and Pixley irrigation districts, of the Army Corps. “They’ll still be releasing water sometime tonight, but it will be a smaller amount, which will increase tomorrow.”

Limas and Tulare Irrigation District General Manager Aaron Fukuda were unsure how high releases would ultimately go and for how long but Kaweah has about 27,000 acre feet and Success about 5,000 acre fee that are above levels allowed by the Army Corps during winter.

Water managers will continue working with the Army Corps to limit the amount of water released from the lakes, Fukuda said.

… Rick Brown, chief public affairs officer for the Sacramento office of the Army Corps, would only say that levels in both lakes were “currently in the flood control space.”

He directed further questions to the Army Corps’ headquarters, which did not return an email Thursday asking: Who made the decision to release the water? Why? Why so suddenly? And why weren’t safety personnel notified?

Some people interviewed for this story speculated that the move was political on the part of the new administration, a kind of water “flex,” but declined to elaborate. …”
 
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“… “In 25 years, I’ve never seen anything like this,” he said. “I was given no explanation at all.”

Before they got word of the Army Corp’s decision to release less water, Hernandez, Fukuda and Limas were planning for the worst.

Hernandez had already notified managers on the old Tulare Lake Bed to expect possible flood water. And Limas and Fukuda had crews ready to work through the night stripping out weirs and channel guides, which were only recently rebuilt after the 2023 floods, to keep the water moving.

“Normally, these kinds of flood releases are done with a lot of notification and coordination,” Fukuda said.

“I’ve been doing this 18 years and have never seen something like this.” …
 
He is literally a madman, and he doesn't have anyone around him willing to tell him that the rivers don't even go to LA. The obsequies would make Waylon Smithers blush.

Seriously, though. This is a major fucking problem. Trump has been reading his reviews so long, all that Trump is God shit, that he thinks the universe will bend to his will. And everytime Paramount or ABC or whomever gives him money, his grandiosity increases.

He literally thinks that the water will go where he wants it to go. That Gazans are going to emigrate to Jordan and Egypt. That every country will do what he wants because he demands it.
 
superrific said:
He is literally a madman, and he doesn't have anyone around him willing to tell him that the rivers don't even go to LA. The obsequies would make Waylon Smithers blush.

Seriously, though. This is a major fucking problem. Trump has been reading his reviews so long, all that Trump is God shit, that he thinks the universe will bend to his will. And everytime Paramount or ABC or whomever gives him money, his grandiosity increases.

He literally thinks that the water will go where he wants it to go. That Gazans are going to emigrate to Jordan and Egypt. That every country will do what he wants because he demands it.
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I’m guessing that failed assassination attempt only magnified his messiah complex.
 
This really needs to get more attention than it is getting. Of all the things that worry me, this might worry me most. If people are acting on his orders to flood farmland ostensibly to deliver water hundreds of miles away, they will act on his orders to nuke hurricanes or Denmark.

I kind of wish the locals hadn't talked the Army Corps down. I mean, obviously I understand why they didn't. But attempted murder doesn't get headlines the way murder does. If Trump flooded farms, I think that would get people's attention and there would be talk of the 28th. The absurdity here is staggering.
 
Healing said:
I cynically concur with all of this, sans the "let it flood" sentiment (though, I'm conflicted).
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Me too. After all, I said "kind of wish." That said, FAFO only works if there is a FO.

Trump is Inspector Gadget. If Democrats keep rescuing everyone from him like Gadget's dog Brain, then like in the cartoon people will not realize what a fucking disaster Gadget really is.
 
05C40 said:
Instead of sending disaster relief aid to California, should Congress just pass a law that refunds to the State of California all federal revenues received from California that are in excess of federal expenditures in California? Surely this is the sort of fair, equitable, and commonsense solutions that the GOP champions.
ETA: The most recent data I could find, 2022, California sent $83 billion more to the federal government than it received back. I guess Republicans really do believe, "From them that has to them that needs."
Link: Balance of Payments Portal | Rockefeller Institute of Government
We self-reliant paragons of virtue in deep red North Carolina, only received a paltry $53B more from the Feds than we pay in. Our stalwart patriots in the NCGA should demand, demand I say, that this ill-gotten $53B be stripped from NC and forthwith, forthwith I say, sent to our brothers and sisters in need in California.
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Mississippi says keep your ideas to yourself.
 
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