[keat]

Just curious

It is part of the State Water Project so it will always ship water to SoCal. It was funded and built for that purpose.

[Gaffer]

Okay, thanks....I was just wondering about the considerations that were put into runoff control after the heavy rains. Was the desire to keep a full-pool condition more for LA water supply more important than the what might happen if the worst happened (for the down damn local residents?)

[The Westerner]

Yes, the Feather was the conduit to SoCal. Had the fathers of the dams and aqueducts been asked to continue building and and the ecofreaks not taken control, there would be smaller reservoirs connected to bigger ones for just these very rainy, snowy winters. The west has always suffered wet/dry cycles along with earthquakes. That's a given. Sorry the environazis won their propaganda campaign that sacrificed brilliant engineering feats to smelt, sea lions, snail darters, and spotted owls.