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Plan to Pipe Missouri River Water to Colorado
CBS St Louis ^ | 12/11/12

Posted on 12/17/2012 11:03:53 AM PST by dirtboy

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To: dirtboy

So Cal should get all of it’s water from desalination.


41 posted on 12/17/2012 7:50:50 PM PST by TheDon (In 2012, American voters doubled down on the first affirmative action president.)
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To: colorado tanker

Plus, this is supposed to be a Department of the Interior project. If something like this is afoot in this administration, betcha a box of Twinkies it is for some form of enviro cause.
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not necessarily. if the green river basin oil shale is ever to be extracted they’re going to need a lot of water.

and yeah the right place to send the water is out to western Wyoming and over south pass.

a separate line should go to western Colorado to stop and stand and fill the ogalala aquifer


42 posted on 12/17/2012 8:35:59 PM PST by ckilmer
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To: colorado tanker

Plus, this is supposed to be a Department of the Interior project. If something like this is afoot in this administration, betcha a box of Twinkies it is for some form of enviro cause.
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not necessarily. if the green river basin oil shale is ever to be extracted they’re going to need a lot of water.

and yeah the right place to send the water is out to western Wyoming and over south pass.

a separate line should go to western Colorado to stop and stand and fill the ogalala aquifer


43 posted on 12/17/2012 8:36:19 PM PST by ckilmer
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To: TheDon

If you ever look out from a jet flying to LA across Arizona past Needles California and due west to LA, you’ll notice two things. The first is figures drawn in the desert by ancient Indians combined with tracks made by modern cars. The second big thing you’ll notice is that there is a blue ribbon of water that runs from the Colorado. That’s a canal built to send water to LA from the Colorado river for LA. They may be paying as much as $600@ acre foot for that water these days. I haven’t looked it up lately. LA does get a little desalinized water but precious little. That water is much more expensive.


44 posted on 12/17/2012 8:41:13 PM PST by ckilmer
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To: TheDon

If you ever look out from a jet flying to LA across Arizona past Needles California and due west to LA, you’ll notice two things. The first is figures drawn in the desert by ancient Indians combined with tracks made by modern cars. The second big thing you’ll notice is that there is a blue ribbon of water that runs from the Colorado. That’s a canal built to send water to LA from the Colorado river for LA. They may be paying as much as $600@ acre foot for that water these days. I haven’t looked it up lately. LA does get a little desalinized water but precious little. That water is much more expensive.


45 posted on 12/17/2012 8:41:29 PM PST by ckilmer
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To: DManA

You know there’s more than one Red River?

Sure, there’s more than one Red River. But the one I was referring to runs through the Texas Panhandle. The reason I would not recommend pumping south of the Red River’s juncture with the Missippi is that the Missippi needs the dirt from the Red River to keep the Missippi delta stocked with new dirt. So it doesn’t erode away.


46 posted on 12/17/2012 8:46:02 PM PST by ckilmer
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a separate line should go to western Colorado to stop and stand and fill the ogalala aquifer

Western Colorado has no relationship to the Ogalala aquifer, which is chiefly located in Western Nebraska, Western Kansas, the Oklahoma panhandle and West Texas.

47 posted on 12/17/2012 8:46:58 PM PST by okie01
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The Columbia river should be diverted to the high plains

You want war with Washington and Oregon w/ many major military bases? Go for it. And the Columbia runs nowhere near Seattle.

48 posted on 12/17/2012 9:10:40 PM PST by steve86 (Acerbic by Nature, not Nurture™)
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To: ckilmer

What you say is completely logical. I just hope that is what is what they are doing.


49 posted on 12/17/2012 11:45:17 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: jrd

“why not start the pipe line from one of the great lakes”

There are treaties with other states and Canada that detail how much water can be removed from the Great Lakes.
At the moment treaty name escapes me ( I am too lazy and dislike google too much) to google the treaty.


50 posted on 12/18/2012 12:02:59 AM PST by Nailbiter
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To: dirtboy

Just keep the cotton pickin’ hands off the Show Me State’s water. Get it from your own sources, implement water conservation in your own state.


51 posted on 12/18/2012 12:18:31 AM PST by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: okie01

a separate line should go to western Colorado to stop and stand and fill the ogalala aquifer

Western Colorado has no relationship to the Ogalala aquifer, which is chiefly located in Western Nebraska, Western Kansas, the Oklahoma panhandle and West Texas.

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Yes you are right. I meant to say eastern colorado. I just assume that the water would best percolate down from eastern colorado to Kansas et al but I could be wrong about that.


52 posted on 12/18/2012 2:44:04 PM PST by ckilmer
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To: colorado tanker

What you say is completely logical. I just hope that is what is what they are doing.
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ah well there’s the rub. likely that is not what they are doing. Rather, I’ve mentioned what they should be doing.


53 posted on 12/18/2012 2:47:43 PM PST by ckilmer
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To: greeneyes

Just keep the cotton pickin’ hands off the Show Me State’s water. Get it from your own sources, implement water conservation in your own state.
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Actually there is a happy solution. From about March to June the Mississippi floods now and again. Those flood waters are not needed.

Just skimming off those flood waters (thereby keeping the mighty Mississippi within its banks) and sending the water west would kill two birds with one stone...


54 posted on 12/18/2012 4:30:00 PM PST by ckilmer
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