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Sunday, April 24, 2005

The rising of Lake Powell

It has been a good 7-9 years since the state of Utah has seen this much snow and water. Lake Powell is projected to rise 45 ft from now until july that doesnt include al of the storms that we recieve during the rainy season here in the state. I have seen the lake rise and then I have seen it fall it is like a big roller coaster. Now We get to seeit rise again. The only problem with the rising of the lake again is that demand for the water down the drainage is going to go up while the demand up the drainage will go down, who will win.
In a tug-of-war for water, the upper basin states want the total release lowered, while the lower basin states want it to remain at 8.23 million acre-feet, despite the fact that the lower states had an exceptionally wet winter and received more than 2 million acre-feet of additional water. A decision on the release figure is expected later this month.
Also if the Sierra Club has thier way they will run more tests on the pumps of the lak just to drop the level more that it already is.
I agree with most of what the Sierra Cub does but what they are trying to do with Lake Powell is obsurd. I agree that the lak was amistake in the first place but it is here now and it would do more damage to drain it that it would to keep it here.

1 Comments:

At 3:20 PM, Blogger Casey said...

im all for keeping lake powell, on one contigency. Make people pay for it, its way too cheap. People will pay for it, they will wine about it though. Let's face it families of 6 go to disneyland daily and pay 50$ a piece w/o question, they can pay extra for lake powell.

 

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